The Pentagon announced a new strike and the deaths of four people aboard a boat apparently carrying drugs in the Pacific ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

A handful of videos on YouTube and TikTok have been racking up likes by showing a strange line in the ocean, with dark water on one side and light water on the other. Lines like this often appear ...

Long before modern climate change, shifts in the Pacific Ocean altered rainfall, triggered droughts, and helped bring down powerful civilizations. Through patterns like El Nino, the ocean reshaped ...

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent “Amasia” will form from the collision of North America ...

The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...

Researchers have discovered an “unexpected” accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude struck the North Pacific Ocean, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

Since the 1800s, the Graveyard of the Pacific has claimed over 2,000 ships and hundreds of lives. This waterway is the Columbia River Bar, where the Columbia River collides with the Pacific Ocean, and ...