Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

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 ...

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) — ...

Figure 1: Contour plots of relative abundances with depth of bacteria and pelagic crenarchaeota during a 1-yr sampling effort at the Hawai'i Ocean Time-series station, ALOHA, in the North Pacific ...

Both Sager and Neal suspect that the Ontong Java Plateau in the southwestern Pacific Ocean — which is the size of Alaska, even larger than Shatsky Rise — contains a massive volcano that could ...

Haidou 1’s mission is to explore the ocean floor. Photo: Weibo The Challenger Deep is the deepest area in the Mariana Trench and also the deepest known point of the Earth’s surface, with a ...