After a cliff-hanger countdown, the space shuttle Atlantis rockets into orbit Friday, putting on one last show for spectators jamming area roads and beaches to witness NASA's 135th and final shuttle ...

Could a stone wall beneath the waves be the echo of a lost civilization from 10,000 years ago? Off Spain’s Salmedina Island, a sprawling network of submerged stone structures-some rising 23 feet high ...

Mission STS-135 for the space shuttle Atlantis marks the end of the three-decade U.S. shuttle program and a fundamental shift in focus for NASA. After a cliff-hanger countdown, the space shuttle ...

Dismissed for centuries as pure legend, Atlantis may have roots in real history. Ancient texts, mysterious ruins, and geological clues suggest this lost civilization might have been real after all ...

Space shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) touches down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and the final flight ...

Against grim weather odds, space shuttle Atlantis and her four-person crew made history on Friday, blasting off from the launch pad and soaring into the clouds, bound for space and the International ...

With the launch scheduled for 11:26 am (1526 GMT) despite a spate of gloomy weather, the storied spacecraft will tote a quartet of US astronauts and a heavy load of supplies to restock the orbiting ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting ...

The story of Atlantis, the island city that disappeared beneath the waves, has fascinated people throughout history. The Greeks believed it had been a large island situated in the Western Ocean near ...

In Harry Turtledove's latest alternate history epic, the world turns on a warped floorboard. In "Liberating Atlantis," a black man, Frederick Radcliff lives on a plantation in the southern part of the ...