When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The largest ocean basin is the Pacific, followed by the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and the Arctic ...

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 ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific, scientists are mapping clusters of dense, towering formations that do not fit neatly into ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660–3,280 feet) ...

A strange radioactive 'blip' has been detected deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. The beryllium-10 blip was detected in the seabeds of the Central and the Northern Pacific, but the authors behind the ...

A bizarre new discovery in the deep Pacific Ocean has scientists scratching their heads, and for good reason. Far beneath the ...

In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.” ...

Earth's ocean, the planet's life-support system, is experiencing rapid and widespread transformations that extend far below its surface. A promising international study published in Nature Climate ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? The predecessor of the Pacific Ocean was Panthalassa, or the ...