The looming ban on bottom trawling is the latest threat to Malaysia’s fishermen, who are also facing declining catch levels, ...

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a vast ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid ...

In a report published on Thursday, the Japanese Defense Ministry announced that its air force was scrambled 704 times against foreign military aircraft that were app ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the ...

The new era of great powers will be an era of Asian powers and of Asian geopolitical rivalry. In many ways, that marks a ...

China’s involvement across the Indo-Pacific in March 2025 ranged from warming ties with India and deepening cooperation with ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Aid efforts following Myanmar’s earthquake reveal new fault lines in global power as Russia and the US edge closer—leaving China watching and wary of shifting dynamics.

As China’s carrier force expands, East Asia's seas are becoming familiar grounds for close encounters between opposing ...