California hides its best treasures in plain sight, and Garrapata State Park might be the Golden State’s most brilliant sleight of hand. Tucked along Highway 1 between Carmel and Big Sur, this coastal ...

By David Ryder and Steve Gorman SNOHOMISH, Washington, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Heavy rains drenching the Pacific Northwest ...

For the first time, scientists have cryopreserved and revived the larvae of a sea star species. The breakthrough, made with ...

Residents began packing up and fleeing rising rivers in western Washington state Wednesday as a new wave of heavy rain swept ...

The Trump administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela is one of the most dramatic twists yet in a ...

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, more than 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies a restless underwater volcano known as Axial ...

MORRO ROCK... is utterly perfect as it stands, so adding strings of lights and ornaments and gewgaws would not be necessary.

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not ...

Archeologists have used drones and photogrammetry to create a map of the quarry that produced 95 of Easter Island's statues.

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New computer models now tie these deep structures to slow chemical leaks between the ...

Mapping of the main quarry on Easter Island where giant statues were carved has uncovered evidence that the monuments may not have been created under the direction of a single chief ...

Beneath the waters off Papua New Guinea lies an extraordinary deep-sea environment where scorching hydrothermal vents and cool methane seeps coexist side by side — a pairing never before seen. This ...