You've probably heard the saying, "He was in the wrong place at the wrong time." That can be said emphatically of the Japanese man Tsutomu Yamaguchi. On August 6, 1945, just before the end of World ...

Capt. Cassin Young received the Medal of Honor for his heroic action at Pearl Harbor. (Naval History and Heritage Command) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 had drama aplenty to go ...

In 2025, the ocean absorbed an extra 23 zettajoules of heat energy in 2025, breaking the ocean heat content record for the ninth consecutive year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole at its center. The jets stretch farther than the galaxy itself and spiral ...

The world’s oceans once again hit a record high temperature in 2025, storing more heat than during any previous year since modern recording began. That heat is so extreme that it’s calculated in ...

Cameraman Norman Alley was napping on the gunboat's deck when Japanese bombs started falling around him. The Universal News cameraman grabbed his camera and began filming as explosions ripped through ...

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into a burning wreck during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Already wounded from ...

HA-19 midget submarine washed ashore on an eastern Oahu beach, after it went aground following attempts to enter Pearl Harbor during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack. (Naval History and Heritage ...

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Japanese yen is too weak, meaning the gap between the currency’s spot rate and what is consistent with Japan’s economic fundamentals will likely narrow in the coming ...

ONE MONDAY IN the fall of 1941, greater Nashuans retrieved their daily newspaper from their front porch or plucked it from their roadside “tube” were almost certainly hoping to read some good news for ...