A pair of Japan-based U.S. destroyers has been operating in the Indian Ocean over the past month, as the Pentagon is enhancing its military presence in the nearby Middle East. Meanwhile, another ...

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A United States aircraft carrier continued its transit to the Middle East following a stop at a military hub in the Western Pacific Ocean ... Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier ...

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways ... The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space.

But a recent discovery has shaken this view, with the finding of an unexpected structure beneath the Pacific Ocean at the very heart of the mantle ... allows for the reconstruction of a detailed image ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links ...

A slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered underneath the Pacific Ocean ... A new study on the find, detailed in Science Advances ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

A ghost ship that has been missing since it was captured by the Japanese Navy during the Second World War has been located on the bed of the Pacific ... Ocean Infinity now constitute the best map ...

This data allowed them to create a detailed map of this previously unknown structure ... a tectonic plate that once dominated a large portion of the Pacific Ocean before it subducted beneath ...

Scientists discovered a new underwater mountain and more than 100 potentially new-to-science species during recent expeditions in the Southeast Pacific ... created detailed 3D maps of the seafloor ...