News; Weird News; Weird Science; Google Maps users convinced they've found secret rocket hidden deep in desert After spotting the odd-looking site deep in the Taklamakan desert people think they ...

China has defied the limits of engineering by constructing a railway across the Taklamakan Desert, one of the largest and most dangerous shifting-sand deserts on Earth. This high-risk, high-reward ...

Satellite images have surfaced, suggesting that the Chinese military is practicing strikes on replicas of U,S. fighter jets. The images, taken in May, show a model aircraft carrier and over 20 ...

Taklamakan Desert (Image credit: Aaron Putnam) Blowing sand in the Taklamakan. Dry lake bed ... Scientists Want to Make a 3D Map of the Entire World Before Climate Change Ruins It.

SEOUL, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A South Korean explorer said Sunday he successfully crossed the Taklamakan desert in Central Asia on foot. The Yonhap News Agency said Nam Young-ho claims to have walked ...

The rail line completes a 2,712km (1,700-mile) railway around the Taklamakan Desert in a world first circumnavigation of a desert, national railway operator China State Railway Group announced.

On January 23, a Sino-Japanese expedition set out on camelback and foot on an attempt to cross the Taklamakan Desert from west to east along the 39th parallel. As the crow flies, the trip is 846 ...

NASA Earth Observatory shared two images of the Taklamakan Desert in China taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Terra satellite. One was taken Feb. 23, while the other was ...