Avaneesh Pandey

Two scientists from Harvard University have, in a new study, described the creation of atomic metallic hydrogen. Many physicists, however, have raised doubts about the claim.

Scientists have succeeded in creating the world's first semisynthetic organism — a bacterium containing two artificial DNA bases X and Y.

The information paradox has been vexing scientists since the 1970s, when Stephen Hawking discovered that all black holes eventually evaporate, completely erasing all information about whatever they gobbled up in the past.

Almost 466 million years ago, a giant asteroid broke apart in outer space. The meteorites created at the time are still falling on to Earth, a new study has revealed.

The launch of Chang’e-5 — China's fourth moon mission — would be the first time the country will try to collect and return a lunar sample to Earth.

The Jan. 30 launch is expected to be one of the last times — if not the last time — SpaceX would use an expendable Falcon 9 booster.

A survey of 11,000 galaxies has revealed that dark matter — the mysterious substance that makes up 27 percent of the universe — may be sucking out the lifeblood of galaxies throughout the universe.

A team of German researchers has demonstrated a technique to manipulate quantum vacuum — a breakthrough that could eventually yield clues about the quantum state of light.

Based on images of two pulsars, astronomers suggest the orientations of their spin and magnetic axes could explain the presence or absence of radio and gamma-ray pulses.

The measurement, carried out by scientists at CERN's BASE collaboration, did not reveal any hints of CPT violation — something that would have helped us solve the mystery of the missing antimatter.

Saturday’s successful launch — the first since the Sept. 1 disaster — puts the company back on track toward fulfilling its space ambitions.

The company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit for the communications company Iridium on Saturday. This will be SpaceX's first launch since Sept.1.

The credit ratings agency has been widely criticized for giving inflated ratings to risky mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations in the years leading up to the crisis.

The image was taken from a distance of over 285,000 miles on Dec. 11, when the solar-powered spacecraft performed its third close flyby of the gas giant.

The "octofoil" knot contains eight crossings in a 192-atom closed loop, and is roughly 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.

In a report approved Thursday, the European Parliament's legal committee also mulled over proposals to designate robots as “electronic persons” with specific rights and obligations.

The founding members of the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund said they would support research aimed at understanding ethical and safety issues related to AI technology.

Two researchers from New Mexico State University posit that the as-of-yet-undiscovered ninth planet of our solar system may be a former "rogue planet" that our sun captured long back.

A Yale University researcher argues in a study that to understand the ecological impact the extinction of large mammals would have, one should examine similar events that took place in the past.

A new study revealed that only a small fraction of Lyman-alpha photons — produced around hot, young stars in the center of galaxies — manage to escape their parent galaxies.

The image shows a structure named IRAS 14348-1447, created when two gas-rich spiral galaxies located over a billion light-years from Earth got caught in each other's gravitational pull.

According to a new study, both the erratic and long-term dimming in the star's brightness can be explained if it can be proven that it devoured an entire planet sometime relatively recently in its past.

New research by scientists at Oxford University has revealed that retroviruses, a family that includes HIV, are almost half a billion years old.

Even if humans were to stop emitting all greenhouse gases right now, thermal expansion and the ensuing rise of ocean levels would continue for centuries to come.

As part of the agreement, Breakthrough Initiatives will fund the development of an instrument that would boost the planet-hunting capabilities of the ESO's Very Large Telescope.

The authors of the study state that the moon formed when many "moonlets" — created not by a single giant impact, but due to several small impacts — coalesced into a single object.

Last year, every state in the contiguous U.S. and Alaska experienced above-average annual temperatures, making the breadth of warmth "unparalleled" in the country's history.

The planet's existence was inferred by the shadow cast by perturbations in a nearby star's circumstellar disk.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists create a road map of the probes’ future trajectories, giving a broader context to what they are currently observing in their vicinity.