It is a mystery that has captivated the world for 88 years, and now scientists believe they have finally found Amelia Earhart ...

Two years later, famed ocean explorer Robert Ballard led an expedition to locate Earhart's plane or evidence that it had ...

Learn who is Amelia Earhart, the iconic aviator. Explore her early life, pioneering historic flights, and the enduring ...

Purdue University, which helped fund her historic 1937 flight, said it will send a team to a remote island in the South ...

The family, including Earhart's great nephew, finally get to see the spot where she landed in Derry in 1932.

Earhart, in a hangar in California, with the Lockheed Electra 10-E plane that she piloted in her two round-the-world attempts. Photograph from Bettmann / Getty ...

The twin-engine Lockheed Electra plane carried four passengers in addition to Earhart. She was asked if she piloted the plane, to which she answered no, but she did acknowledge that she sat in the ...

Around the World in 36 Minutes With Laurie Anderson Her new album brings Amelia Earhart’s tragic final flight to life. By Sara Curtis, Frannie Carr Toth, Wendy Dorr, Jon Pareles and Pat McCusker ...

If Noonan's dead-reckoning did not bring the plane directly over Howland, Earhart would fly up and down the 337-157 degree "line of position" until she found it. "To the north, the first landfall ...

Amelia Earhart In 1932, Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo. She began her journey in Newfoundland and headed for Paris in a Lockheed Vega 5B. Many ambitious ...

Amelia Earhart is pictured at the old Rock Springs airport on June 4, 1931. Her aircraft was a Pitcairn autogyro, a sort of fixed-wing airplane / helicopter hybrid. Autogyros could not hover, as ...