The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest global situation to punch holes through air traffic flows, a ...

Open a book of maps and look for the "Indo-Pacific" region—it likely won't be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 11. Newsweek's weekly update maps ... covering China and current events around the world.

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

The U.S. has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet with 11 in service, including six based on the West Coast. China ranks second with three aircraft carriers.

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 ...

An international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia—considered to be the ‘eighth continent of the world’ that is beneath the Pacific Ocean ...

Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the Pacific Northwest coast. Along this fraught stretch, called ...

Pacific Islands the world’s most aid-reliant region, report finds. Australia is the largest donor to the islands, providing about 40 percent of total development finance from 2008-2021.