Avaneesh Pandey

The fast food giant will retain only 20 percent stake in the business, while Chinese state-backed Citic Group and America's Carlyle Group will have 52 percent and 28 percent stake, respectively.

The launch, scheduled to take place Monday, was rescheduled to Jan. 14 due to a forecast of heavy winds and rains at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The catalog, compiled as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, maps the distribution of various elements — including carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulfur — across the Milky Way.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have succeeded in creating bridge-like structures made of two DNA nanotubes in a feat resembling a “high-wire circus act.”

A team of researchers has created a series of "threat maps" that reveals the impact of human consumption on global biodiversity.

Until now, such observations were only possible from space-based missions such as Cassini, Voyager, and most recently, Juno.

The NED-D catalog is part of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database — a repository containing information on more than 100 million galaxies.

A new study, published in the journal Lancet, has linked living close to major roads with increased risk of dementia.

Until now, penitentes — formed due to sublimation of ice and erosion — had only been seen on Earth.

FRB 121102 — the only known recurring fast radio burst — is being emitted from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth.

A new study has revealed that measurements showing a slowdown in ocean temperature rise between 1998 and 2014 were affected by a "cold bias."

The image, captured using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, shows, in glorious detail, the Orion A molecular cloud located roughly 1,350 light-years from Earth.

The space agency announced Tuesday that it was close to determining the cause of an anomalous reading encountered during vibration tests carried out last month.

PGC 1000714, a galaxy located roughly 359 million light-years from Earth, belongs to a class of galaxies that consist of a central core surrounded by a visibly unconnected ring of matter.

The contracts, announced under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program, bring the total number of missions awarded to SpaceX and Boeing to six each.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, to be launched in 2020, would use three space telescopes equipped with cameras capable of measuring the polarization of high-energy X-ray radiation.

A new study has debunked the traditionally accepted belief that reduction of tooth size in humans was linked to the increase in brain size.

MIT researchers have developed a technique, which involves the use of two Bose-Einstein condensates with different magnetic alignments, to carry out extremely precise measurements.

A new study suggests that prolonged incubation periods may have hampered dinosaurs’ ability to compete with the other survivors of the extinction-level event 66 million years ago.

The company said it had identified the cause of the Sept. 1 Falcon 9 explosion, and that it seeks to resume launches Jan. 8 — pending approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.

In a statement emailed to reporters Monday, the president said that the address would, among other things, “offer some thoughts on where we all go from here.”

A sudden burst in diversity of life about 545 million years ago may have been caused by a spike in atmospheric oxygen, triggered by an acceleration in the rate of burial of sediments that later became fossil fuels.

After conducting a survey of nearly 2,000 people with a past negative experience when consuming magic mushrooms, researchers have now urged caution in the use of the drug.

In an op-ed for the Guardian, Martin Hughes-Games, presenter of the series “Springwatch,” said that “Planet Earth II” was “a significant contributor to the planet-wide extinction of wildlife.”

Sean Spicer's comments, made during an interview with ABC, came just a day after President-elect Donald Trump said he knows things "other people don't" about hacking.

The presence of rings in the disk around the 15-million-year old star, named HIP73145, suggests that there may be protoplanets orbiting the young star.  

The source of intense bursts of microwaves is a galaxy named IRAS 16399-0937, located roughly 370 million light-years from Earth.

On Thursday, a team of experts at NASA's Langley Research Center finalized the design for an “Ice Home” — one of the many concepts for sustainable human habitats on Mars.

One of the objects is a comet that may become visible through a pair of binoculars next year, while the other seems to straddle the line between a comet and an asteroid.