A special envoy to the Caspian Sea region would help counter China, Russia, and Iran—and end the impression that Washington ...

off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 ...

And yet on maps of the shoreline from the previous year ... Two centuries later, NASA geologists reviewing satellite footage of the Caspian Sea found themselves asking the same questions.

The island was spotted by satellite in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, NASA says. NASA photo Like some sort of modern Atlantis, a “ghost” island has largely ...

Last month, an 18th-century 28-meter wooden shipwreck was discovered off the Mazandaran coast of the Caspian Sea in southern Iran. Operating under Russian influence, the ship likely comprised part ...

The aircraft limped across the Caspian Sea and crashed short of a runway near Aktau, Kazakhstan. Coincidentally, the flight’s point of departure, Baku, and the city close to its crash site ...

Based in Almaty, the institute has long been at the forefront of Caspian seal research. Scientists at the institute conduct ...

The Caspian Sea has witnessed a bizarre phenomenon. A temporary island formed off the coast of Azerbaijan and disappeared, all within a couple of years. The island, created by a mud volcano ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers. The island emerged in early 2023, only to recede into the sea by the end of 2024 ...

The Kumani Bank mud volcano in the Caspian Sea created an island in early 2023 that had almost disappeared by the end of 2024, according to Landsate satellite imagery. | Credit: NASA Earth ...