Far below the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies Axial Seamount, the most active underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest. It’s slowly preparing for its next eruption.

A handful of videos on YouTube and TikTok have been racking up likes by showing a strange line in the ocean, with dark water on one side and light water on the other. Lines like this often appear ...

Long before modern climate change, shifts in the Pacific Ocean altered rainfall, triggered droughts, and helped bring down powerful civilizations. Through patterns like El Nino, the ocean reshaped ...

The Pentagon announced a new strike and the deaths of four people aboard a boat apparently carrying drugs in the Pacific ...

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude struck the North Pacific Ocean, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent “Amasia” will form from the collision of North America ...

Researchers have discovered an “unexpected” accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...