The Pacific ocean is the biggest geographical feature on the plaent, bigger than all the Earth's continents combined. The story of how it got its name however is actually pretty simple, so have some ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on Earth, but just how big is it really? Covering over 63 million square miles ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...

Dust blown from the Earth's continents falls into the oceans and fertilizes them with nutrients needed for plants, such as ...

“The African continent is undergoing a slow, monumental split due to tectonic plate movements in the Afar Triangle. A new ...