Official disclosures and open-source satellite imagery reveal the locations of four U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups.

Polynesian cultures have a remarkable navigational tradition. It stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an intimate understanding of nature. Where Western cultures developed maps and tools to… ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

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… ...

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.

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier returned to its home port in Japan this week, ending the American "carrier gap" in the Western Pacific Ocean since the summer.

About 5,000 new species were discovered in a region of the Pacific Ocean set to be mined by companies looking for copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, manganese and other rare earth elements.