Nearly everyone has a few old coins kicking around. But did you realize that a few cents from the 1950s could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars today and help you get ahead financially?

When you think of coins that are worth more than a pretty penny, you likely think of ones that bear the faces of ancient emperors or commemorate major historical events. The 1950s might not exactly ...

In nine days and six hours of mapping, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor surveyed 43.5 million square miles of the Earth’s surface…twice. The mapping gathered enough data to fill 20,600 compact ...