Rollercoasters might just be one of humanity’s most impressive creation. Seriously — have you ever been to Six Flags before? It’s crazy. The engineering required in order to build the winding, looping ...

Roller coasters rely on two types of energy to operate: gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Gravitational potential energy is the energy an object has stored because of its mass and its ...

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The first thing that happens after you strap into the Firebird roller coaster is that the floor underneath you drops. And then, it gets better. You build up a little momentum coming out of the gate ...

[Narrator] There are people who like roller coasters, there are people who love roller coasters, and then there are people like Will Pemble. All I need is a little bit of encouragement to say yes to a ...

The Lego Fairground Collection already includes a roller coaster. Now, Lego is adding a Loop Coaster that is one of its tallest at just over 3 feet and it includes “an innovative elevator tower for ...

Loop the Loop at Coney Island, 1903 Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images On August 16, 1898, Edwin Prescott, a roller coaster designer from Massachusetts, was granted a patent for an ...

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom has reached another milestone in the construction of its newest roller coaster, Iron Menace.Crews finished connecting the tilted loop, the first of its kind on a dive ...

The wooden Leap-the-Dips amusement park ride in Altoona, Pennsylvania, is the oldest roller coaster still running in the United States. Built in 1902, it became a National Historic Landmark in 1996.