More than a decade since the start of the longest ocean warming event ever recorded, scientists are still working to ...

Sick sea stars are lethargic, lose their arms and disintegrate into gooey masses. More than 90% of sunflower sea stars were ...

The organisms discovered sustain on chemosynthesis rather than sunlight and are clustered around abundant methane seeps in ...

Known to only live in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Solumbellula appeared in the Pacific for the first time to ...

Waves and strong currents are expected to continue Wednesday for Washington but it appears we've escaped largely unscathed.

A new giant virus with “unusual” features – including an unprecedentedly long tail – has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

Santa Monica’s Pacific Park is one of the most iconic, and visited, landmarks in Southern California. But it’s far from the first seaside amusement park on our shores. L.A. Times columnist Patt ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time marker.

Those that Credit: public domain The Polynesian people, inhabiting the islands in the Pacific Ocean, embarked on epic voyages across vast distances well before the advent of modern navigation tools.

If you’ve ever noticed that flights from the U.S. to Asia or other Pacific destinations don’t typically fly directly over the ...