Avaneesh Pandey

A new study based on analysis of data gathered by the Opportunity rover states that Mars is, and has been for millions of years, an incredibly dry planet.

Observation of the event, which takes place in a span of a trillionth of a billionth of a second, marks the smallest division of time ever recorded by humans.

The deal, expected to close by mid-2017, paves the way for the South Korean tech giant's expansion in the automotive technology market.

According to a new study, jets of energetic plasma emerging from a black hole’s accretion disk can increase turbulence of gas and dust in a galaxy, thereby preventing star formation.

The pause in emissions growth is believed to be driven largely by the drop in coal consumption in China and the United States.

According to a new study, dark energy may — roughly 100 billion years from now — cause the cosmos to gradually tear itself apart, down to the atomic level.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have, for the first time, observed the full quantum nature of the fundamental particles that orbit an atomic nucleus.

According to a new study, consciousness — the awareness of one's existence — is the result of interactions between regions in the brainstem and the cortex.

Many seabirds accidentally ingest plastic flotsam because it gives off an odor that they associate with food, a new study has found.

Comments made by the president-elect's advisers suggest that NASA is likely to increase its focus on deep-space activities and move away from Earth science studies.

The president-elect pledged to "cancel" the Paris climate agreement during his campaign. Here's how he could do it.

The rise in the photosynthetic uptake of carbon dioxide by plants over the past decade is, however, not enough to halt a catastrophic rise in global temperatures.

Stock markets across the world dropped sharply late Tuesday and early Wednesday as investors, fearing economic uncertainty under a Donald Trump presidency, fled to safe-haven assets.

According to the theory, anomalies in the motion of stars and galaxies can be explained by the presence of an entropic force that acts like gravity.

The water level in the Great Salt Lake — the largest water body in the U.S. after the Great Lakes — fell to 4,191.2 feet last month, marking its lowest level in recorded history.

During the two-week mission, researchers will collect rock samples to practice and perfect protocols that would be needed during similar missions on Mars.

Nearly 114 million light-years from Earth, a collision between two spiral galaxies has produced a dazzling star formation that resembles a pair of eyelids.

The company, seeking to revive its smartphone sales hurt by the Note 7 fiasco, said that the digital assistant would let consumers use third-party services.

Ten of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have created a fund to invest in technologies that would reduce carbon emissions from oil and natural gas.

Four NASA spacecraft, flying at an altitude of 43,500 miles in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, now hold the Guinness World Record for the highest altitude fix of a GPS signal.

Improving the precision of mass estimate of antiparticle is key to understanding a long-standing cosmological quandary — where is all the antimatter?

The exercises simulated a 300 to 800-foot-wide asteroid impacting Southern California or just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean four years from now.

Google's DeepMind and StarCraft-maker Blizzard Entertainment have joined hands to open up the real-time strategy game to AI and machine learning researchers around the world.

The SpaceX CEO said Friday the “surprising” problem that caused a Falcon 9 rocket to explode on the launch pad in September had been identified.

A researcher from Rutgers University has come up with an innovative solution to the world’s nuclear waste problem — using glass to immobilize radioactive materials.

On Thursday, Luxembourg's government struck a $28 million investment and cooperation deal with the American asteroid mining company Planetary Resources.

Our current theoretical models tell us that the tetraneutron — a structure composed solely of four neutrons — shouldn't exist. But supercomputer simulations have now shown that such a particle may actually be real.

China aims to use the 187-foot, two-stage, heavy-lift rocket in fulfilling its plans to establish its own space station and in its future missions to the moon and Mars.

A new study that examined hundreds of mutational signatures in over 5,200 genome sequences of cancer cells has revealed the irreversible damage caused by tobacco smoke.