Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

It lurks over four miles deep below the Pacific Ocean, split in half and lodged on a slope. There’s a new world’s deepest shipwreck to be identified and surveyed – and it’s the USS ...

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?Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

A whole new world: Surprising ecosystem thriving under sea floor. The study authors found the tubeworms and other species living in warm, fluid-filled cavities more than 2,500 meters, or 1.5 miles ...

Under the Pacific Ocean, ancient sediment reveals Earth’s history. Ohio State University. Journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology DOI 10.1029/2025PA005133. Keywords ...

At the time, there were two tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean, the Kula and the Farallon. These plates have long since slid underneath the Earth's crust, a process known as subduction.

What is this 2.5mile long object moving under the Pacific Ocean? A MASSIVE circular structure has been spotted slowly crawling across the Pacific sea floor 3000 feet below the surface.

Deep under the sea, an almost entirely transparent creature has been spotted. While on a 34-day journey in a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, marine biologists recently made two rare sightings ...

The biggest single volcano on Earth is in the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Hawaii and Japan. Dubbed 'Tamu Massif,' the humongous volcano erupted almost 150 million years ago.

This study joins past research that suggests storm activity in the North Pacific Ocean has increased under climate change, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography said.

A tectonic plate “lost” for 60 million years under the Pacific Ocean has been reconstructed by scientists at the University of Houston. Known as Resurrection, the plate has been a contr… ...