A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

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.

National Geographic, one of the world’s pre-eminent and most visible mapmaking groups, has officially decreed the existence of a fifth ocean. Called the Southern Ocean, it’s the body of water ...

The organization has yet to agree to a proposal that was submitted in 2000 to add the Southern Ocean to the world map, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

While the Theodore Roosevelt was sailing eastward in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, another U.S. aircraft carrier, USS George Washington, departed from San Diego on Tuesday and headed westward for Japan.

An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia—considered to be the ‘eighth continent of the world’ that is beneath the Pacific Ocean ...

Detailed renderings of the Pacific Ocean floor are a key feature of The Oregonian/OregonLive real-time earthquake map, which draws on a data feed that the U.S. Geological Survey updates every 15 ...