Across America’s 28 biggest cities, the ground is shifting—literally. A new study using millimeter-precision satellite data reveals that almost all these cities are sinking, with some areas plummeting ...

The death of 128 Americans in a German submarine attack horrified Americans but failed to push the United States into World ...

In 2005, the USS San Francisco slammed full speed into a massive mountain under the Pacific. How the stricken vessel narrowly ...

The USS Torsk, a historic submarine that's now a museum in Baltimore, was the last US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship until Operation Epic Fury.

If you’re a student of military history, then you know that size and strength alone don’t always guarantee victory. Time and again, history has shown us that smaller, determined forces, guided by ...

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US defense firm Northrop Grumman has released new high-resolution images of a historic ship that sank 160 years ago. Images of USS Monitor were acquired using the firm’s µSAS micro synthetic aperture ...

The vessel is submerged 240 feet deep off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Northrop Grumman On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor—the U.S. Navy’s first ironclad warship—sailed into a storm ...

The Union’s USS Monitor is considered by many to be the most famous ironclad ship of the American Civil War, if not the most famous ship of any kind. It shares the honor with its archnemesis, the ...

One of the nation’s most famous wartime shipwrecks is apparently still defending itself on the seafloor off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, researchers say. New high-solution sonar images captured by ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — In April 1861, as Confederate forces moved in on Gosport Navy Shipyard, the Union burned it down, sinking its ships. The Confederacy salvaged what they could of the USS ...

More than 160 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, new 3D images are offering a detailed look at an iconic Civil War ship that helped shape naval technology and marine ...