Wide Angle: Titanic Shipwreck 100 Years Later
On April 15, 1912 at 2:20 a.m., a little less than three hours after crashing into an iceberg, the HMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, claiming the lives of over 1,500 people. But that's not the whole story. Explore the latest news and photos of this legendary oceanliner in this Wide Angle.
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Saving Ships From Titanic's Fate
Despite a century of technological gains, ships rely heavily on the human eye to detect icebergs.
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Titanic Memorial Cruise Retraces Tragic Voyage
Relatives of some of those who died in the disaster are among the 1,309 passengers on board the MS Balmoral.
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The Titanic: What Made It Sink
A perfect storm of fateful events conspired to cause the tragic sinking of the Titanic nearly a century ago, according to a study looking at the math and physics behind the tragedy.`
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'Titanic' Accuracy Tightened by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The 1997 movie, "Titanic" is being re-released and although few changes have been made to the movie itself, there is one tweak that will impress astronomers.
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'Titanic' Director Dives to Earth's Deepest Point
Filmmaker James Cameron successfully finished a solo dive to the deepest part of the ocean.
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Did the Moon Conspire To Bring Down Titanic?
On Jan. 4, 1912, there was a rare alignment of the moon and sun, such that the two bodies' gravitational pulls added together to produce a "spring tide."
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Titanic Wreck Site Mapped
The first comprehensive map of the Titanic wreck site has been created as researchers pieced together some 130,000 photos taken by underwater robots in the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Titanic's 'Unknown Child' Identified
One of the Titanic's most famous passengers, a little boy known as the “unknown child,” has finally been identified.
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Steering Error Sank The Titanic, Says Author
A steering error, followed by the deliberate decision to continue sailing, sank the Titanic in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, according to the granddaughter of the ocean liner's second officer.
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Titanic Being Eaten by Destructive Bacteria
A new bacterium isolated from the Titanic wreck is accelerating the wreck's disintegration into a pile of dust.
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Rare Titanic Letter Heads for Auction: Big Pics
A first-person account of the ordeal of one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster will soon hit the auction block.
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Titanic Wreck Mapping Begins
A high-tech expedition aims to create the most detailed portrait of the Titanic's final resting place to date.
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Explorers to Create 3D Map of Titanic
The 20-day expedition will assess the condition of the Titanic, which lays 2.5 miles below the Atlantic Ocean.
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New Titanic Wreck Photos Surface: Big Pics
A high-tech expedition to the site of the Titanic wreck has yielded the first photos of the sunken oceanliner since 2004.
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Rare Titanic Letter Heads for Auction: Big Pics
A first-person account of the ordeal of one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster will soon hit the auction block.
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Last Titanic Survivor Dies at Age 97
Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died in England.
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WATCH: Titanic Artifacts Arrive in NYC
Artifacts from the ship and its passengers finally make it to their intended destination.
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