The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's ocean basins, according to the National Ocean Service. It contains more than half of the free water on Earth, spanning around 63 million square miles.

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

January's Colorado River basin snowpack is about normal, but without a snowy late winter, Arizona will likely see sustained ...

The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 kilometers ... stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according ...

The basin could still get a big influx of snow this winter, Templeton said, a scenario that played out in 2024. Pacific ocean temperatures, which have a strong effect on weather patterns in North ...