After spotting the odd-looking site deep in the Taklamakan desert people think they've uncovered a hidden Chinese rocket, although others believe there's a much simpler explanation ...

The possible oil well sits deep within the Taklamakan desert Credit: Google Maps. China began gaining an interest in rocketry and missiles before the launch of Russia's Sputnik in 1957.

Enigma: The mysterious grids in the Taklamakan desert in western China, ... date back to 2004, while they are not on older images from Bing or Nokia Maps. ...

The Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert, in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region: ... Census takers visit the sites to survey and map them using real-time kinematic devices, ...

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, an assistant professor of physics at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, argues that the mysterious pattern in the Taklamakan desert in western China was ‘clearly man ...

BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest desert in China. At the same time, its fast-moving sand dunes make it also the most ...

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 ...

An article last Sunday about traveling through the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, at the heart of the old Silk Road, located the region incorrectly. Xinjiang is in northwest China , as indicated ...

BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest desert in China. At the same time, its fast-moving sand dunes make it also the most ...

BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest desert in China. At the same time, its fast-moving sand dunes make it also the most ...