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

Minutes” aired a segment with a Northwest angle. In the piece, “60 Minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker visited the so-called “Graveyard of the Pacific,” at the mouth of the Columbia River, an area ...

Pacific Ocean Shrinking: Scientists Predict Formation Of A New Supercontinent According to scientists, that slow-motion drift will one day result in the total closure of the Pacific Basin and the ...

Hurricane season is just weeks away, and the Pacific Ocean is cooling off again. That’s important because it can create conditions more conducive to hurricanes.

Satellite-based conically scanning microwave radiometers are capable of making precipitable water vapor (PWV) observations over the vast ocean regions. In this study, PWV from five on-orbit ...

A World War II bomber has been discovered 3 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s still fully armed with an 83-year-old bomb fixed to the wing, NOAA Ocean Exploration says. The Douglas SBD ...

One of the biggest reasons why the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans don’t mix instantly is the presence of strong ocean currents. These currents act like invisible walls, keeping waters flowing in ...

This time, it was the depths of the ocean. At a depth of about 5,000 metres, the abyssal zone of the Pacific Ocean has never seen light, yet something does still grow there.

The Pacific is the biggest and deepest ocean on Earth, covering about a third of the planet's surface. It stretches over 155 million square kilometres, with an average depth of 13,000 feet.

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

Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These polymetallic nodules, generating electricity like AA ...