The Pacific is ... and far from the equator. As you might have noticed from the globe's example, the string takes the shortest path, however, seeing it on a 2D world map makes it look distorted.

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.

It is expected to fly over the North and South Poles 55 times between Monday night and splashdown Friday in the Pacific Ocean ... at the bottom of a world map and wonder what's out there.

For the first time, researchers can use artificial intelligence to predict South Atlantic ocean warming linked to the El Niño ...

This time the volcano Krakatoa, in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted. News of the colossal eruption was ...

USS Michael Monsoor is a powerful symbol of the U.S. commitment to a secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific, the U.S. Seventh ...

Meanwhile in the Indian Ocean, India has deployed an ... Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region. As of April 25, the locations of 11 vessels were ...

amplifying the warming toward the equator. Consequently, the equatorial ocean is warmed up with a pronounced warming over the eastern Pacific—similar to the "El Niño" weather phenomenon ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A strong 6.3 earthquake off Ecuador's Pacific coast shook the northern part of the country Friday, with ...

This striking satellite image reveals a giant, near-perfect cloud circle that formed in the heart of the Pacific Ocean more than ... a low-pressure belt near the equator where the trade winds ...