Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

For nearly half a century, a mysterious sound has echoed through a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean, eluding scientists and oceanographers alike. Rhythmic and persistent, this underwater signal ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning circulation—play a pivotal role in shaping the diversity and function of microbial life ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the water ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

Aquarius Reef Base,’ focusing on the world’s only operating underwater research laboratory, opens Nov. 20, replacing ...

The Pacific Ocean’s seabed is rich in critical metals such as cobalt and nickel. Yet deep-sea mining of these materials, which are used in many technologies, threatens the region. If mining goes ahead ...

The blob is back, and no, I am not talking about the movies about the alien blob monsters. I am talking about the Pacific “Blob”, a large area of warmer water stretching over the North Pacific Ocean, ...