The United States aircraft carrier USS Nimitz continues to operate in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, as the Chinese navy expands its presence in the Pacific Ocean.

The federal government recognises three American ships sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1942 killing more than 600 men as having ...

Before Pearl Harbor, the United States had been able to crack Japan’s secret codes, a feat that allowed the military to learn and prepare for Japanese plans to attack Midway Ato ...

The USNS Harvey Milk, named for the openly gay Navy veteran who served in the Korean War, is making headlines. This ...

The ocean covers almost 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, and over 95 percent remains unexplored. With so much of the ocean still a mystery, any new deep-sea discovery has the potential to reshape ...

Finding aircraft actively involved in the pivotal battle of World War II in the Pacific was ... exploration of Yorktown, which rests more than three miles below the ocean’s surface, a small ...

The first USS Yorktown CV-5 has been resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean since 1942 and an expedition dive in mid-April revealed new secrets of the carrier's history. A discovered ...

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot ... It was the first time since the USS Yorktown’s sinking in World War II that anyone had seen the entire 12-foot-high ...

An ocean mapping expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explored the resting site of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5 ... impossible and the ...

An ocean mapping expedition conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explored the resting site of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) and found that a ...

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully ... fell to the seafloor trapped inside the USS Yorktown, which was sunk by a Japanese submarine ...

The USS ‘Yorktown’ was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and now rests at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been ...