Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

According to scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Swiss research university ETH Zurich, a new method ...

While studying earthquakes and the composition of the Pacific Ocean mantle, scientists have uncovered strange underwater ...

California researchers made a grim discovery earlier this month when ash and debris from the Los Angeles fires were found floating far offshore in the Pacific Ocean. Plumes of dark smoke and detritus, ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and the Nimitz in the Eastern Pacific.

With Southern California ablaze, the lack of water leaves many wondering, why not use ocean water to combat fires?

Salt water from the ocean is an option for fighting L.A.'s fires, but it's more complicated than simply going to the beach to ...

The ship’s demise on this day in 1906 demonstrated the terrifying dangers of the treacherous waters in the Pacific Northwest Teresa Nowakowski Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans ...

A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina, ...

In emergencies, dumping ocean water on fires may be the best option. But seawater can have long-term effects on equipment and ...

The deployment will last several months and is scheduled to conduct exercises in Japan and other regional islands.

The Obama administration yesterday announced its intention to designate a vast portion of U.S.-controlled areas of the Pacific Ocean as a nature preserve. Although packaged as part of the president’s ...