Fact Book

San Francisco 1906: The Earthquake Was Only the Beginning How can a devastating earthquake last less than a minute, yet leave a city burn...

Editorial illustration: the opening artwork is AI-generated and is not a photograph of the actual 2015 flight. On February 4, 2015, TransA...

Cover image: AI-generated conceptual illustration. Not a historical photograph or accurate reconstruction of New Orleans in 2005. Explore th...

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard. Radar...

On April 11, 1970, NASA launched Apollo 13, its third attempt to land astronauts on the Moon. The planned mission took an unexpected turn wh...

On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, generated one of the deadliest tsunam...

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger began what should have been a groundbreaking mission. Just 73 seconds after leaving Kenned...

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens became the site of the deadliest volcanic eruption in United States history. But the feature that made the...

Air France 447 Explained: How a Modern Airliner Vanished Over the Atlantic On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 disappeared over the Atl...

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was completing work on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico when control of the wel...