Sailing ships once dominated the seas, and were behind much of the early exploration of the planet. Why don't large modern ships have sails anymore?

The Navy's six active San Antonio-class amphibious Landing Platform Dock ships are an integral part of the Navy's future The flight deck holds up to four Sea Knight helicopters that together can ...

In addition to a seamless launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous drone ship for the very first time. This was SpaceX’s fifth landing attempt on a drone ...

But that confidence was literally blown out of the water this morning after a Falcon 9 rocket booster dramatically exploded shortly after landing ... down a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic ...

The Navy needs a fleet of 31 operational amphibious ships to support the Marine Corps. However, the service is facing challenges with spare parts, unreliable ship systems and canceled maintenance ...

Kuztnetsov is a notoriously unreliable ship. She was built by the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and languished in Russian service after the Cold War. In 2009, a problem with the electrical system ...

In assessing how these classes of ships are sustained, GAO found 150 examples of class-wide problems, such as unreliable ship systems. These problems stemmed from shipbuilding programs not ...

On Friday, after four near-misses, the private spaceflight company managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. "Fifth time's the charm," one of ...

He was originally going to ditch his plane in view of the crew, but then noticed that the stacked containers on the ship deck looked an awful lot like the landing pad back on Illustrious.

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In the video presentation, he recalled what the Japanese air assault looked like before his ship landed 500 Marines on the beach. "All we could see are the flares and tracer bullets that lit up ...