An island emerges from the waters, then vanishes, as if it never existed. In the Caspian Sea, this phenomenon has been repeating for over a century, defying expectations and captivating scientists.

Sitting in the rich blue waters off the coast of Azerbaijan was an island the size of a basketball court. By Abikh's measure, it stood 3.6m above the water-- higher than the elevation of Amsterdam.

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

NASA has released images of a vanishing "ghost island" in the Caspian Sea, lying between Europe and Asia. Captured from its Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites, the series of images showed the ...

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 ...

Mud volcanoes aren't uncommon in this part of the world. In 2023 an island appeared in the Caspian Sea, about 25 km off Azerbaijan's east coast, and disappeared a year later. NASA satelites ...

In 2023 an island appeared in the Caspian Sea, about 25 km off Azerbaijan's east coast, and disappeared a year later. NASA satelites tracked the emergence and disappearance of this 'ghost' island ...

Two missing siblings from Ohio were found on a remote island in Iceland months after disappearing.The U.S. Marshals Service in Northern Ohio and Canton Police Department announced they recovered ...

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A Long Island teen who vanished when she got into an unknown car outside her home was found safe aboard a boat on Friday, ending her family’s nearly month-long nightmare. Emmarae Gervasi’s ...

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 satellites, in which you can see the birth and ...