The Pacific Ocean isn’t just the largest ocean on Earth — it’s a vast underwater graveyard and mystery zone that has swallowed centuries of our human history.

Q. Someone told me that the body and arms of calamari, like you eat in a restaurant, can be more than 40 feet long. I’m not sure I believe my ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge tectonic theories.

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light energy into chemical energy). Plants and algae use sunlight to convert ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

The Worm Moon is one of those quiet wonders of early spring. It rises around March, just when the nights are still long but the days are hinting at wa.

It was the first time in the campaign against people the United States accuses of drug smuggling at sea that American forces ...

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

Stretching along Oʻahu, Hawaii, this scenic route follows the edge of the Pacific Ocean. A towering green mountain rises beside the sea, with palm trees and farmland below. The shoreline curves gently ...