Some baseball seasons are remembered for their trophies. The 1986 New York Mets season is remembered for the trophy, the drama, and a postseason that seemed…

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Also known as M42 , this immense region of glowing gas and dust lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the same spiral arm of the Milky Way as our Sun.…

USAF fighter planning targets 1,509 combat-coded jets by 2035, balancing new aircraft, aging fleets, production limits, crews and readiness across the force.

The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis had erupted in August, as the People’s Republic of China bombarded the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Across the water…

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Tehran , November 1943: Joseph Stalin , Franklin D. Roosevelt , and Winston Churchill gathered to discuss the war’s future. It makes for a tempting image—three…

Most fast-food restaurants are designed to disappear into the background. This KFC in Manila seems to have received the memo—and promptly filed it under…

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Look toward Orion ’s famous three-star belt, then a little below it: even without a telescope, you can spot a faint, fuzzy patch. That glow is the Great…