When Amelia Earhart stepped into the cockpit of her Lockheed Electra in June 1937, her sights were set on an accomplishment no woman had ever made—a female-piloted solo flight around the globe ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake Michigan for more than a century, state ...

Archaeologists are confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by the Russian space agency Roscosmos and ...

Any surviving wreckage will belong to Russia, under a United Nations treaty. After following the spacecraft’s downward spiral, scientists, military experts and others could not pinpoint in ...

Both are first-year grad students in anthropology at Trent University, and were being trained to do scale drawings of the wreck by archaeologist Leslie Curry. (Andrea Bellemare) Dad Jason Atchison ...

Fifteen people survived, including Bacares. The wreckage sits at a depth of 50 metres in the bay of Porticello, which is under surveillance by Italian authorities. Insurers estimate the salvage wi ...

A dump truck slammed into the back of the famed music venue Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood Friday afternoon. The truck hit the 102-year-old building on the Sunset Strip in the mid afternoon, and ...

Any surviving wreckage will belong to Russia under a United Nations treaty. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

He is the funniest writer America has ever produced, and Chernow has an awful task as a biographer, which is to portray him from midlife onward as a suffering wreck. “What any biography of Mark ...