One of Earth's most interesting natural features, the Caspian Sea is the largest inland body of water on the planet, defying conventional classifications to be both a sea and a lake. Situated ...

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 ...

Shifting water levels and sand erosion along the coast of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, revealed the top of a ship in fall 2003, according to a study published Dec. 16 in the peer ...

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 ...