Even trying to frame the largest body of water on Earth in a conceivable way is tough. In 2023, a man kayaked 2,300 miles from California to Hawaii, not even half of the distance across the ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big? Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square ...