Beneath the South Pacific Ocean lies a microcontinent that was hidden for over 300 years. Zealandia, which separated from Australia millions of years ago and was once Earth's eighth continent ...

Zealandia, Earth's hidden 8th continent, lay submerged for centuries. Now fully mapped, it reveals secrets of tectonic drift, ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Every continent has a continental shelf that extends ... plate tectonics. The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through.

Facing intensifying threats to their ocean and way of life, Pacific countries must act swiftly and in unity. This, according ...

It covers about a third of the Earth. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west. It also stretches across both sides ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them ... forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth.