Avaneesh Pandey

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured images showing a vortex rich in trace gases developing in the upper atmosphere over the south pole.

The hearings come almost a year after the Supreme Court of Hawaii revoked a permit that would have allowed the construction of the giant telescope to proceed.

The British group already owns a 42.2 percent stake in the American company. The cash-and-stock deal, if it goes through, would create the world’s biggest listed tobacco company.

The data show several messages sent by John Podesta, now Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, to Barack Obama in 2008 — just days before Obama was elected as president.

Astronomers have discovered two extraordinary sources of X-ray flares, whose behavior may represent an entirely new class of phenomenon.

The map, which reveals the fine details of structures between stars in our galaxy for the first time, was created using the world’s largest radio telescopes.

European Space Agency officials confirmed Thursday that the Trace Gas Orbiter had entered an elliptical orbit around the red planet — calling it a "huge success" for the mission.

Just 13 hours before it was scheduled to make a close flyby of the gas giant, the NASA spacecraft went into safe mode. It has since rebooted successfully.

The move comes after a report said Yahoo had built surveillance tools to secretly scan email accounts of millions of its users to gather information at the behest of the government.

New Horizons will rendezvous with 2014 MU69 — a 20 to 30 mile wide object located roughly a billion miles from Pluto.

According to a new study, over 300 species of wild mammals across the world are currently at risk from bushmeat hunting.

A team of researchers has argued that consciousness may be the byproduct of the brain trying to move toward a state of higher entropy.

The docking, which took place Tuesday, marks the beginning of the country’s longest manned mission.

The company announced Tuesday that it had created a technology that enabled speech recognition systems to hear language as accurately as humans.

Sunday's flight would mark the first launch of the Antares rocket since its predecessor exploded just seconds after liftoff two years ago.

If Schiaparelli lands on the Martian surface, it would mark the first successful European attempt to land a probe on Mars.

A success in "bridging" quantum computers can pave the way for the creation of a series of interconnected devices at an atomic scale.

On Monday, a Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying a Shenzhou-11 spacecraft with two people on board will lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

The new discovery could potentially help overcome the key obstacle in the creation of quantum computers.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have set a new record for plasma pressure — a key ingredient in the production of energy from nuclear fusion.

On Friday, scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany switched on a machine that aims to determine the mass of neutrinos.

A neural network created by DeepMind researchers can not only learn, but can also use data stored in its memory to “logically reason” and make inferences to answer questions.

The agreement, finalized during a U.N. meeting in Rwanda, aims to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons — potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioners and refrigerators.

A new study has revealed that our moon is being pummeled by meteorites far more frequently than previously assumed.

An updated estimate of the number of galaxies in the observable universe pegs it at 2 trillion — 10 times higher than calculations had previously suggested.

The Massachusetts senator said SEC chair Mary Jo White undermined the agency’s “core mission” by failing to draft rules mandating corporations to disclose political contributions.

Several other large global investors are also in talks to join what may soon become the world’s largest private equity fund, the Japanese company said.

The technology giant halted the production of its flagship smartphone following reports that the devices were catching fire.

The red dwarf star, located just 4.2 light-years from Earth, resembles our parent star in one key aspect — it exhibits a regular cycle of starspots.