Sarcastic fringeheads are small yet mighty saltwater fish found in the Pacific Ocean. Known for their massive jaws and mouths ...

The Metals Company (TMC), a Canadian firm, has applied to the US for deep-sea mineral mining in international waters, a first ...

The U.S. Seventh Fleet's mission is to provide operational control and planning for its forces in the Pacific and Indian ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

A Canadian company has announced that its U.S. subsidiary has submitted applications to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to mine the seafloor ...

A new company is testing deep sea desalination technology that can turn saltwater to drinking water without the harmful ...

The U.S. has stationed warships such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines in the Western Pacific Ocean. The ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

Novelist Richard Powers has written another love letter to the planet—in this case, the 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere that ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works.