As we mark World Ocean Day today, 8th June, many will be celebrating the beauty and bounty of our seas. But behind the ...

Novices like Ah Xing are at the bottom rung of the ladder. Few new recruits make it through an entire voyage, especially on ...

The military space race is heating up. China is developing a robotic design that can intercept and shove away suspicious ...

IEEE Spectrum takes you inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built—and reveals its stunning first images ...

Video: satellite loop and detected lightning on Wednesday morning, June 4 over New Caledonia. ... causing the moist Pacific Ocean winds to precipitate intensely. Image: DTN MetStorm QPE showing ...

May 28 - The ocean is our lifeblood. It is our provider, the foundation of our cultures, and our home. But it is changing before our eyes. Growing up in Samoa, an island nation ringed by a vast ...

The tropics have awakened from their winter slumber, and Tropical Storm Alvin may soon be upon us. In the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central America, meteorologists say the atmosphere is becoming ...

A salvage team is en route to a cargo ship carrying almost 3,000 vehicles that was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean after a fire broke out earlier this week off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.. The 600 ...

Satellite imagery appears to have captured a Chinese aircraft carrier transiting waters near the Philippines and Taiwan—both allies and partners of the United States—in the Pacific.

In the southern flanks of the Indian Ocean and the central and eastern Pacific, just north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, lie the Subantarctic Mode Waters. As part of the global ocean ...

A ship carrying about 3,000 cars to Mexico was abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after catching fire Tuesday, highlighting a growing risk to the transportation of electric vehicles.

Hurricane Erick formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean on a forecast track to bring heavy rain, strong winds, storm surge and possible mudslides to southern coastal Mexico, forecasters said.