March 27, 2026 marks 50 years since WMATA (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) inaugurated the Washington Metro (Metro Rail) rapid transit system in the National Capital Region. The first ...

WASHINGTON — Metro is at the heart of DC metro area public transportation, it's what makes the DMV. On Friday, WMATA turns 50. The first Metro rail begin carrying riders on March 27, 1976 with just ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission has yet to return to Earth—it will do so on Friday evening, splashing down into the Pacific Ocean ...

More than half a century after NASA’s final Apollo mission, astronauts prepared Wednesday to return to the moon, but this time, they will not land. Instead, four crew members aboard Artemis II will ...

WASHINGTON — A portion of Metro's Red Line will be closed for three months over the summer while several construction projects are underway. According to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit ...

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft has begun transmitting its first images from deep space, offering a view of Earth from farther away than any crewed mission has traveled since Apollo. The Orion ...

On March 27, 1976, the Metro rail system made its first trip, a 4.6-mile Red Line journey between Rhode Island Avenue and Farragut North in D.C. Over the next 50 years, it clocked more than 7 billion ...

Vincorion SE’s shares rallied in their Frankfurt trading debut, as the German supplier of power systems for military vehicles joined Europe’s growing ranks of defense stocks. Shares in Vincorion ended ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission (WMSC) released a new audit of Metrorail’s internal review programs, uncovering a gap in how the transit authority monitors its own ...

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket will launch a crewed capsule into orbit and then on a mission around the Moon. AP Photo/John Raoux Pace: Let’s go back to the 1980s and 1990s. After the space shuttle ...

There’s a chance that, while you read this, someone is boldly going where no one has gone before. The Orion is a spacecraft that four astronauts are currently sitting inside after Artemis II ...