From our perspective, the Earth is pretty darn big and for most people, there is a massive amount of land to explore. After all, you can travel for days at a time without every running into an ocean, and even when flying at high speeds, you can travel over land for long periods of time.

A man swept into the Pacific Ocean off California's Central Coast over the weekend has been identified as an Army soldier from New Jersey, as authorities continue to search for his body.

The number of sea-floor animals fell by 37 per cent in a deep-sea mining exploration zone, according to a study published on Friday probing the

Far below the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies Axial Seamount, the most active underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest. It’s slowly preparing for its next eruption. Scientists are carefully watching the volcano because it helps them understand how eruptions happen under the sea.

Authorities on California's Central Coast have suspended search operations for an Army specialist from New Jersey who was swept out to the Pacific Ocean over the weekend.

Publishing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers at Kyushu University report that they have developed a new method to more accurately analyze the distribution of small microplastics in the ocean at various depths.

Minutes from the town centre; metres from the soft sand and sparkling sea, this Cabarita Beach home packs a punch.

In early February 1948, a strange and urgent morse-code SOS, three dots, three dashes and three dots again, came from a Dutch cargo ship, the S.S. Ourang Medan that sailed through the Strait of Malacca.