A major cycle of Pacific Ocean temperatures is shifting due to climate change, and that could drive decades of megadrought in ...

Tropical Storm Henriette has rapidly strengthened into a hurricane in the central Pacific Ocean with further strengthening ...

Venture into the vast and mysterious Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest and deepest ocean, stretching from the Arctic to ...

Scientists have discovered PelV-1, a giant virus with an unprecedentedly long tail, in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. This virus infects Pelagodinium plankton and possesses a 2.3-micrometer tail, ...

HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again, after ...

Coastal communities and beaches in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama had the highest levels of ...

A crew conducting deep-sea explorations off the coast of Japan was shocked to discover a new species of sea snail living at ...

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Erin has formed in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean as Hurricane Henriette is strengthening ...

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

The splashdown off San Diego closed out a 148-day mission for two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut.

The Pacific Plate (in blue) was formed at the junction of three tectonic plates — Farallon, Phoenix and Izanagi — that once sat under the massive ocean Panthalassa. | Credit: Fama Clamosa ...

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