Chinese research vessels with ties to the People's Liberation Army are conducting sweeping surveys of the undersea floor in the Indian Ocean, collecting data that could be crucial in deploying ...

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. All three vessels were ...

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), a significant gravitational anomaly, has puzzled scientists for decades. Research suggests ...

As the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues, Australian officials have released a topographic visualization of the search area at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Video by Geoscience ...

The April 2025 trilateral agreement between India, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates to develop Trincomalee's energy hub represents a strategic counterweight to China's expanding Indian Ocean ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...