SpaceX readies Starship Flight 13, adding key upgrades to fix the glitches that halted the previous launch. SpaceX is targeting a launch of Starship Flight 13 as early as July 16, a test that could become one of the company’s most consequential...

First treasures from a $20 billion shipwreck emerge, sparking a global clash over gold, history and legal ownership. Three centuries after the San José vanished beneath the Caribbean, a Colombian-led team succeeded in raising its first tangible relics....

1’s lander, 26 July 1976. The flag is mounted on the RTG windscreen, beneath the U.S. Bicentennial emblem and the Viking ship logo. From the surface, the landers sent back high‑resolution photos of a dusty, rocky terrain and recorded temperature swings,...

the assignment remained speculative. Left plot indicates the study area off northern Baja California, México, with the ship transect lines in white and DASPR tracks in blue (n = 18). Top right figure is a map of North America north of 20° indicating the...

colleagues describe the Nebra Sky Disk as “the oldest precise depiction of the heavens in human history.” Bronze Craftsmanship Meets Celestial Mapping Made from bronze and embellished with gold inlays, the disk appears to have undergone multiple phases...

— en route from Trinidad to the Gulf of Mexico—made a scheduled stop near Puerto Rico to aid the investigation. Onboard, the ship deployed a Kongsberg Maritime HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle operated by Deep Sea Vision. The drone’s high‑resolution...

older adults. Japanese Fishing Vessel Caught in the Fallout The radioactive cloud also settled on the Japanese tuna‑fishing ship Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Fukuryu Maru). While operating outside the declared test zone, the vessel’s deck and equipment became...

the remaining 750 survivors into rescue vessels. Although HMS Edinburgh was taken in tow, a second German assault left the ship crippled, and the convoy ultimately scuttled the vessel. The cruiser sank to a depth of roughly 800 feet, taking its gold...

cartographer Michael Zeiler plans to combine the eclipse with a view of the northern lights. He intends to position a cruise ship within a Greenland fjord to film the aurora borealis while totality unfolds, hoping to capture two extraordinary phenomena...

the Program’s Hazards A 1971 episode aboard the research vessel Lev Berg illustrated the program’s vulnerability. The ship entered a haze near the island, and a crew member later developed smallpox despite prior vaccination. The infection spread to nine...

SpaceX readies another Starship launch, potentially featuring Elon Musk’s bold tower‑catch maneuver. SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch that could feature a tower‑based capture of the returning booster. Elon Musk indicated that the...

A diver uncovered a rare gold cross from a centuries‑old Spanish shipwreck off Bermuda, but the artifact vanished decades later and remains unrecovered. A diver uncovered a gold cross set with emeralds among the remains of a 16th‑century Spanish...

locate HMS Tiger wreck off Isle of Wight, ending 118‑year hunt and sparking debate over stronger protection for military shipwrecks. A team of divers and maritime historians from ProjectXplore announced the identification of HMS Tiger, a 400‑ton...

are incorporating them. Deep‑Sea Survey on the Vessel “Pourquoi Pas?” A crew of roughly 30 scientists aboard the research ship Pourquoi Pas? spent a month at sea from May 27 to June 28, 2026. Over the course of 20 dives reaching depths of more than...

Archaeologists uncover a 16th‑century shipwreck 2,567 m beneath the Mediterranean, its cargo eerily preserved as if frozen in time. A French naval survey team has pinpointed a 16th‑century merchant vessel resting at roughly 2,567 metres below the...

questioned whether the zircon grains found on Mauritius were merely contaminants introduced by human activity, such as ship ballast. This theory was effectively put to rest by a 2017 study in Nature Communications, which successfully extracted zircon...

Two millennia underwater preserved these Roman emperor ships, but now the ongoing war in Ukraine threatens to destroy these priceless historical treasures. For nearly two millennia, the volcanic depths of Lake Nemi, located 30 kilometers south of Rome,...

nautical past, including a remarkably well-preserved Roman storage vessel and the obscured remains of a mysterious ancient shipwreck. These findings, discovered in the waters between the Piombino Channel and the Tuscan Archipelago, provide fresh insight...

SpaceX has successfully recovered its Starship vehicle following a precise ocean landing, providing critical data to advance future spaceflight missions. SpaceX has successfully retrieved its Starship spacecraft from the depths of the Indian Ocean,...

that the injuries are consistent with the use of bar and chain shot—ordnance typically intended for naval combat against ship rigging—which caused catastrophic trauma when turned against infantry. Advanced analysis of the soldiers’ teeth has allowed...