Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

More than a decade since the start of the longest ocean warming event ever recorded, scientists are still working to ...

Tropical Storm Henriette forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday with 45 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center ...

Waves and strong currents are expected to continue Wednesday for Washington but it appears we've escaped largely unscathed.

Known to only live in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Solumbellula appeared in the Pacific for the first time to ...

Hurricane Iona was expected to move westward for the next couple of days and stay far south of the Hawaiian Islands, ...

Two tropical cyclones are swirling across the ocean southeast of Hawaii but forecasters don't expect them to cause any issues ...

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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.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time marker.

Those that Credit: public domain The Polynesian people, inhabiting the islands in the Pacific Ocean, embarked on epic voyages across vast distances well before the advent of modern navigation tools.