This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

In a quiet demonstration of its technological prowess, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted a missile defence test in the Gobi Desert where as many as 16 ballistic missiles ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

In the early afternoon of March 28, 2025. a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Mandalay, in central Myanmar, followed by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock moments later. Within minutes, social media ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once ... interdisciplinary team that documented an ancient water-sculpted landscape in the Empty Quarter, one of the largest and driest deserts in ...

That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ... east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made tools ...

Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent ...