Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

Researchers uncover a possible active underwater volcano chain near the Cook Islands, hinting at fresh geological activity.

Climate models have predicted that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming, but new research shows that it's ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was detached from the Earth-facing port of the Unity module by the Canadarm2 robotic ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...