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

An expedition to a remote and tiny island this fall will attempt to locate Amelia Earhart's plane​ in the Pacific Ocean.

A pioneering aviator, Amelia Earhart went missing on July 2, 1937, after attempting to become the first woman to fly across ...

The official search, named the "Taraia Object Expedition," will begin on Nov. 5, when a field team visits the island ...

There's a new lead in the almost nine decade search for Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared without a trace during her ill-fated 1937 bid to be the first woman to fly around the world.

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Amelia Earhart smiles as she sits clad in a leather aviator’s jacket in the cockpit of a small airplane. Bettmann Archive “But I think what we want to stress is that there’s so much more to ...

New clues have emerged in what is one of the greatest mysteries of all time: the disappearance of legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart. Deep Sea Vision, an ocean exploration company based in ...

Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly from Hawaii to North America on this day in history, Jan. 11, 1935, succeeding after 10 previous pilots died while attempting the same trip.

Even as an elementary school student, I’ve always been fascinated by the disappearance of female flying icon Amelia Earhart, whose plane lost contact with tower communications on July 2, 1937 ...

A new image could provide a crucial clue in the decades-long hunt for answers about the fate of famed U.S. aviator Amelia Earhart, nearly 90 years after she disappeared.

American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898 - 1937) (centre) is surrounded by a crowd of wellwishers and pressmen on arrival at Hanworth airfield after crossing the Atlantic. (Getty) ...