Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

Aircraft carriers are a key component of the U.S. Navy, supporting aerial attacks, security missions, and disaster responses by offering a launch and landing zone for dozens of aircraft while out ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier and eased toward the image its operators wanted to see.

A US Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Red Sea lost a $60 million fighter jet on Monday. The aircraft fell overboard after a move crew "lost control" of the jet, the Navy said. It's the second ...