For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock ...

A number of people were outraged last week by a man named L. Sprague de Camp. Mr. de Camp announced in Natural History that Atlantis and other “lost continents” had never existed. Plato started it all ...

Just before docking, the shuttle did a backflip so the crew could photograph the thermal shielding. In this image taken from video provided by NASA TV, the space shuttle Atlantis is seen from the ...