The drag resistance of water makes over-ocean travel far slower than travel by land or air. Still, the U.S. Navy is tasked with responding to crises and emerging threats virtually anywhere in the ...

From classic Federation workhorses to wild experimental drives, Star Trek ships have used everything from refined dilithium to living mycelial networks to cross impossible distances. This countdown ...

In 1952, the SS United States won the famed Blue Riband, the prize given to the fastest ship to cross the Atlantic. On the record-setting maiden voyage, the ship went so fast some of the paint on the ...

Susan Gibbs’s grandfather designed one of the fastest and most luxurious cruise liners ever. She has just weeks to find it a new home, or it could be scrapped or sunk.Credit...Shuran Huang for The New ...