NOAA Ocean Exploration cruise uses multi-sonar beams to map an area of the Pacific Ocean's seafloor and ends up detecting a ...

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of ...

NOAA explorers discovered a massive underwater mountain near Palau using sonar mapping during ocean exploration cruise.

A groundbreaking effort led by Pacific Island leaders to safeguard the ocean took a major step forward today, with the Bezos Earth Fund announcing $37.5 million USD in grants to support marine ...

An “enormous” submerged mountain that rivals peaks in the Rockies has been mapped for the first time in a previously unexplored area of the western Pacific, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration.

Hurricane Kiko quickly intensified on Sept. 5 and was expected to further strengthen overnight as it churned toward the Hawaiian Islands. Ocean swells stirred up by Kiko are forecast to begin arriving ...

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's updates about Hurricane Kiko for Thursday, Sept. 4. Hurricane Kiko has formed in the Pacific Ocean, while a tropical depression is expected to strengthen into a ...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kiko intensified into a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday at the same time Hurricane Lorena geared up to lash the coast of Mexico’s Baja California. Kiko surged ...

(TNND) — Hurricane Lorena formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday morning, off the coast of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. Forecasters have issued a tropical storm warning, and the storm ...