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 ...

What are the main theories about the true nature and location of Atlantis? Was it on Sardinia, Crete, Africa, or was it just an allegory?

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 ...

Aquaman’s Atlantis is an extraordinary, awe-inspiring tale. But the lost city has a forgotten dark side — it was used to justify murder. Adolf Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler had a dream. He ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand ...

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 ...