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

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

The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a completely ... was taken during a 2003 research expedition, trawling the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand ...

As deep-sea mining interests in the Pacific Ocean grow, scientists have discovered several rare and as yet unnamed aquatic ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption that likely scattered the sharks that normally dwell there.

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...

In a shocking revelation, scientists have discovered thousands of giant eggs in an underwater volcano off the coast of ...

one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — across the Pacific Ocean, eventually arriving in Fiji, according to a new study. Using genetic evidence, researchers propose that these iguanas made ...

The airframes of two Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters that collided and crashed in the Pacific Ocean in April last year have been recovered, MSDF officials announced on March 12.

The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Submarine canyons, underwater erosion ... plate tectonics. The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through. These trenches mark areas ...