A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

It covers more than 60 million square miles—yet its name means peaceful. Here's how history gave Earth’s wildest ocean a strangely calm identity.

Explore the vast ocean in 25 spectacular photos From groundbreaking research to the beauty of marine sanctuaries teeming with life, these images shine a spotlight on the ocean and the Explorers ...

Forecasters say a weather system swirling off the coast of western Mexico has developed into the first tropical storm of the eastern North Pacific hurricane season.

According to scientists, that slow-motion drift will one day result in the total closure of the Pacific Basin and the birth of a new supercontinent: Amasia.

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These genetic results, combined with the geography of where iguana fossils have previously been found, point to ancestral iguanas rafting across the ocean from the shores of North America.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on Earth, but just how big is it really? Covering over 63 million square miles (165 million square kilometers), it’s larger than all the continents ...

A region of the Pacific Ocean that’s larger than Switzerland is now fully protected from fishing, thanks to the creation of a massive new marine sanctuary in the Marshall Islands. The Marshall ...

Scientists discover the largest-ever mega coral off the coasts of the Solomon Island in the southwest Pacific Ocean. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PRISTINE SEAS/AFP via Getty Images “I went diving in a ...

See Staggering Photos of the World’s Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically ...

The largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins is the Pacific Ocean, covering approximately 63 million square miles. It's also considered the oldest of the world's ocean basins.