The world's longest straight road is in Saudi Arabia and is so long that a driver can travel for more than 150 miles without ...

A road in Saudi Arabia holds the world record for being the longest straight road on the planet, taking the title from ...

The team led by A. Zaki, S. Castelltort, and colleagues from KAUST studies traces of ancient river and lake systems in Northern Saudi Arabia and the Rub’ al Khali desert. The brown traces represent ...

The world's longest straight road stretches a staggering 150 miles without a single corner, as the country it's based in goes ...

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret. In 2002, ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of Science ...

Morning settles over the world's largest sand desert, painting the landscape in golden light. Around the tent, dunes glow ...

In a major boost to its upstream ambitions, Saudi Arabia has announced the discovery of 14 new oil and gas fields and reservoirs across the Eastern Province and the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter). The ...