Avaneesh Pandey

The ring-grazing maneuver — the first of 20 the spacecraft is scheduled to carry out over the coming months — will provide some of the best views of Saturn's rings.

Nihonium (113), Moscovium (115), Tennessine (117), and Oganesson (118) have now been officially added to the periodic table of elements.

As part of the "cut-and-come-again" technique, astronauts reaped the first harvest of red romaine lettuce leaves grown on board the International Space Station last month.

A study suggests that long-lasting cycles of warm periods on Mars, caused by the build-up of greenhouse gasses, may have allowed running water to carve the planet's surface.

Astronomers have, using the Hubble Space Telescope, captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4696 — a "cosmic oddity" located 150 million light-years away.

The successful free-flight test run, which the company said was first of many, comes after a series of captive carry flights undertaken over the past few weeks.

Astronomers have observed a massive galaxy cluster condensing directly from a cloud of surprisingly cold gas — a process vastly different from how galaxies form in the present-day universe.

Astronomers believe IC 3583 is a Type II irregular galaxy — one that was created as a result of a gravitational interaction with another nearby galaxy.

Noctilucent, or night-shining clouds — located roughly 50 miles above the Earth's surface — have long been considered a sort of “canary in a coal mine” for methane.

A nearby neutron star has provided the first observational evidence of “vacuum birefringence” — a quantum effect predicted 80 years back.

European government officials on Thursday approved the nearly $464 million the European Space Agency had requested for the second phase of its ExoMars mission.

Many were quick to point out that the article, which criticized climate change “alarmists” in the “mainstream media,” made assertions that were unscientific and misleading.

Most scientists assume that Sputnik Planitia — the wide plane in the western lobe of Pluto's "heart" — is an impact basin. A new study argues otherwise.

Researchers may have finally identified the cause of an affliction that nearly two-thirds of long-duration astronauts suffer from, and the answer does not bode well for our space-travel ambitions.

According to a new study, a low-mass supernova roughly 12 times heavier than our sun may have triggered a gravitational collapse that eventually created our solar system.

Researchers have created a deep-learning algorithm that can, given a still image from a scene, create a short video that simulates the most likely future of that scene.

The machine, named ELENA, would slow down the antimatter particles to a level that makes it easier to study or manipulate them.

Analysis of satellite images revealed a troubling trend with the Pine Island Glacier, already known to be one of the fastest melting glaciers in Antarctica.

The ability to create, manipulate and modify the quantum properties of individual photons is key to creation of viable optical quantum computers.

“You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted,” a message left by the hackers read, on computer screens at several stations.

Scientists at CERN's NA64 experiment have begun looking for "dark" photons — hypothetical particles that may be acting as mediators between dark and normal matter.

An estimated 154 million Americans had either shopped, or were planning to shop, over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but large discounts meant they spent less per person.

The nitrogen-rich stars, located near the center of the Milky Way, may shed light on the formation and evolution of our galaxy.

The converter — capable of modifying the quantum properties of individual photons — is more efficient that the techniques currently used for the process.

Regions with flat faults are more likely than those with curvy faults to experience earthquakes of magnitude 8.5 or higher, a new study has revealed.

The findings of a new study suggest radioactive decay rates — long considered physical constants — are more variable than previously thought.

By introducing mutations into a naturally occurring enzyme, researchers were able to create a protein capable of forming bonds that evolution has long avoided.

Researchers have found that deep-sea corals in the North Atlantic are now under threat from climate change-caused rise in average winter temperatures in Western Europe.

The space agency has begun testing a prototype of the Advanced Plant Habitat — its largest plant chamber, which will be delivered to the International Space Station some time in 2017.