Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and found a massive underwater mountain. Using a sonar system, the researchers digitally mapped the seafloor of the area ...

and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two ...

Other mountain ranges in the region are not volcanic, but instead were lifted by tectonic forces. During portions of the Paleozoic (542 to 251 million years ago) and Mesozoic (251 to 65.5 million ...

Following a surge of record challenging warmth earlier this week, cooler air will move in with lowering snow levels as storms ...

Oceanographers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in California recently mapped a massive underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,448 km off the coast of Chile. The seamount rises ...

Through Thursday morning, more rain will move through Western Washington ahead of a low-pressure system spinning out in the ...

An Australian warship on Monday rescued a Lithuanian solo rower who had encountered a tropical cyclone while attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from California. Aurimas Mockus was taken aboard ...

The deepest known area of the ocean is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. It is nearly 11,000 metres deep. It is so deep that if you put Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, at the ...