When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The largest ocean basin is the Pacific, followed by the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and the Arctic ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 7.

A Chinese aircraft carrier on Tuesday sailed from the Western Pacific Ocean toward the Philippines while the United States was facing a "carrier gap" in the contested region again. The Liaoning has ...

That squiggly line through the Pacific where days begin and end has no legal authority and technically doesn’t exist. By Mike Ives The writer, who lives in South Korea, has reported from Kiribati, a ...

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A monthlong survey ...

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? The predecessor of the Pacific Ocean was Panthalassa, or the ...

A U.S. aircraft carrier visited Thailand this week, while a French carrier reached the edge of the Western Pacific Ocean as it stopped in Indonesia after a multinational war game. The Carl Vinson ...