On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Iran's foreign minister said Monday that his nation had carried out military strikes against Israel "until the very last ...

West Asia stands at a precipice. With Israel’s escalating strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites and Tehran’s growing threats of retaliation, the region is teetering on the edge of another war ...

In a nutshell New independent research confirms that 23,000-year-old human footprints at White Sands National Park are authentic, proving people lived in North America during the peak ice age. The ...

As tensions rise in West Asia with intense clashes between Iran and Israel, oil markets are jittery whether the war will spill over to the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint that drives one-fifth of ...

Apart from the diaspora, there’s no mass support for the return of the king in Tehran, Zahedan, or Bandar Abbas. Netanyahu has staked it all in the final showdown with Iran. Either he will redraw the ...

Iran and Israel are both in the Middle East, with Iran also technically part of West Asia. A vast country, Iran - formerly known as Persia - covers 1.648 million square miles and it has a ...

News Jane Haynes Politics & People Editor 05:30, 11 Jun 2025 Updated 12:43, 11 Jun 2025 Outline map of the route of the proposed new Metro extension to East Birmingham and Solihull ...

Myanmar has a desperate past. After a coup in 1962, it suffered 49 years of military rule. Between 2011 and 2021, the army relinquished some power, and for a while that allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, a ...

In addition to the redrawing of the geographical map, the redrawing of the geopolitical map of West Asia is underway, as Arab states, like the rest of the world, opt to look the other way from the ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West ...