Sixty years ago Wednesday, a shiny metal ball weighing 184 pounds was hurled into space. It had always been a matter of when, not if, humans would launch something into orbit. The surprise to many ...

Aluminum’s great for a lot of things. It can protect your leftovers, help you cook, and also apparently be turned into big ol’ shiny balls that glisten like bubble in Valerian and the City of a ...

The contemporary-art market took a sobering blow in last week’s auctions, but the hundreds of people who turned out for Performa’s Metal Ball on Saturday found the mood to be redolent less of 1929 ...