The Xiang Yang Hong 03 reached the Indian Ocean on July 11 after a brief stop in Malaysia. Damien Symon, an open-source intelligence expert, mapped the ship's movement in the region in a recent ...

China has long been accused of using its research vessels for reconnaissance mission. Despite India's concern, China ...

Listen to this article The 5 April 2025 trilateral agreement between India, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates to develop an energy hub in Trincomalee represents a strategic recalibration in the ...

China has rapidly expanded its military footprint across the Indian Ocean, conducting exercises from the Red Sea to the Malacca Strait and deepening ties with key regional players—including some ...

Twenty years ago, a tsunami devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Margarettha Siregar, who helped respond to the disaster in Indonesia.

India and China are vying for control of strategic islands and chokepoints in the Indian Ocean. With shifting US policy, the battle for influence is intensifying, shaping regional and global power. (S ...

In the latest show of force against Iran and Yemen's Houthi rebels, the United States has deployed at least six nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to a base in the Indian Ocean within striking distance ...

Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. The Boxing Day quake was one of the largest ever recorded.

This ISRO map shows the final resting place of the POEM-4 experiment module on April 4, 2025 after it fell to Earth and crashed into the Indian Ocean north of Australia. (Image credit: ISRO) ...

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed more than 220,000 people across 12 countries.

The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, lower-than-average sea levels and a puzzle scientists have only just begun to solve.

Open-source, ship-tracking data showed China has recently sent three research vessels to the Indian Ocean to survey the strategic waters that border its competitor India. The movements of the ...