As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

Oceana.org reports great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean spend about half the year off the California coast and around Guadalupe Island, which is 150 miles off of Baja California, Mexico.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F fighter jet lands on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on October 2. The aircraft carrier was on its way to Japan to ...

About 5,000 new species were discovered in a region of the Pacific Ocean set to be mined by companies looking for copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese and other rare earth elements.