Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

July 3, 1988 – an ordinary day, and an ordinary flight. But seven minutes into a 28-minute trip from Tehran to Dubai, ...

By Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community Outreach Petty Officer 1st Class Lowell Topham, a native of Tampa, Florida, serves aboard the Wasp-class amphibious ...

The proposed acquisition of the decommissioned Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi is out of step with the country’s ...

1846: U.S. Marines and Navy sailors take possession of San Diego during the early months of the Mexican-American War. Two ...

The Sri Lankan navy towed a stricken supertanker away from the Indian Ocean island's east coast on Wednesday, while an Indian Coast Guard plane sprayed chemical dispersants on a long oil slick that ...

A new fire broke out on a supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lanka, spokesmen for the country's navy said on Thursday, adding that one of ...

While the U.S. has lost numerous vessels in combat operations since its founding, there have been thousands of accidents ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Boeing has handed over the German navy’s first P-8A Poseidon to Berlin’s BAAINBw defence procurement body, ahead of the maritime patrol aircraft’s expected transfer to Europe during November. Accepted ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – Ashton Burton, a senior at Hampton University, has dreamed of taking to the skies since he was in high school. After years of training and dedication, that dream is coming true.

The first of 12 P-8A Poseidon MMAs for Germany was formally handed over during a ceremony in the US on 1 October. (Boeing) Boeing has delivered to the Bundeswehr the first P-8A Poseidon multimission ...