The Pacific Ocean has shaped human history for centuries, serving as a highway for explorers, trade, and war. From Polynesian navigators crossing vast distances to European colonization and World War ...

We’re almost to the weekend, and this weekend will be warm and dry. The formation of La Niña in the Pacific Ocean likely ...

Dave Matthews has pulled out of the FireAid benefit concert—where was set to perform alongside John Mayer—due to a “critical ...

Equipment failure led Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago to crash in Sioux City in 1989, killing more than 100 people.

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by ...

There are growing concerns about the worldwide expansion of coral reef destruction. Research team: “This is an extremely ...

Weather systems that affect the West Coast of the United States often have their origins in the northern Pacific Ocean. This is because the jet stream usually flows in a general west-to-east fashion.

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

The American amphibious assault ship, USS America, can support flight operations by F-35B stealth fighter aircraft.

The unusual holes in the ocean didn't reveal an underwater volcano or some hydrothermal vents, but rather something remarkable.

Nauru, a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean, is one of the only sovereign states without a designated capital city.

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...