Gulf of Mexico

A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday night.

SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight.

Scientists are examining the corpse of an endangered whale that washed up on a Mississippi Gulf Coast beach.

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River

Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of the Texas coast in 2017.

For a sixth day, rescue crews returned Sunday to a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, looking for nine crew members who have not been found, the Coast Guard said.

Coast Guard boats and aircraft have covered an area larger than the state of Rhode Island to search for 12 people still missing Wednesday off the Louisiana coast after their offshore oilfield vessel capsized in hurricane-force winds.

The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law that protects most US bird species.