NORFOLK, Va. ( WGN) — As part of a time-honored United States Navy tradition, a Wheeling native assumed command of the ...

On April 19 and 20, NOAA Ocean Exploration explored the final resting place of USS Yorktown, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ...

In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a ...

The Charleston area is seeing a defense-related shipbuilding renaissance led by companies like Newport News Shipbuilding, HII ...

Researchers exploring the underwater wreck of an American aircraft carrier have discovered what's left of a wood-panelled ...

Two women have been injured, and two people have been detained after a stabbing incident in Norfolk on Wednesday evening.

A second fighter jet has been lost to the Red Sea after it went overboard from the Norfolk-based USS Harry S. Truman aircraft ...

Finding aircraft actively involved in the pivotal battle of World War II in the Pacific was the most important discovery in ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Phil Hartmeyer, is a marine archaeologist at NOAA's Ocean Exploration program, about a mural discovered in the shipwreck of the USS Yorktown, which sunk during WWII.

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the large ...