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

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 ...

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.

The remains of the pilot of a downed World War II Army bomber that was the subject of a pioneering recovery project in the Pacific Ocean have been identified, the Defense Department said Tuesday.

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

A “worldwide catastrophe” is imperiling Pacific Islands and the world must respond to the unprecedented and devastating impacts of rising seas “before it is too late,” the United Nations ...

See Staggering Photos of the World’s Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged underneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 million years, a new study suggests ...

Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean warming and acidification all pose significant ...

Sea levels in the Pacific Ocean are rising more rapidly than the global average, endangering low-lying island nations, a World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) report revealed on Tuesday. While ...