The Pacific, which holds more than half of the free water on Earth, is also our planet's deepest water body, extending to a depth of more than 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) at Challenger Deep in the ...

The first comprehensive mapping of ocean wilderness revealed that no part of the ocean is untouched by humans, and only 13 percent could be classified as "wilderness." "Nowhere is safe," said ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Oceana.org reports great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean spend about half the year off the California coast and around Guadalupe Island, which is 150 miles off of Baja California, Mexico.

United States Navy sailors perform maintenance on an F/A-18E fighter jet in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz while underway in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on April 2, 2025.

Last month, an eagle-eyed social media user came across a dark spot in the middle of the ocean when scrolling on Google maps. It soon got lots of people talking and wondering what it could could be.