Avaneesh Pandey

In a new report, scientists from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine have endorsed clinical trials on germline editing — but only in cases where no “reasonable alternatives” are present.

The LHCb experiment at CERN succeeded in making the most precise measurement to date of a very rare decay of a strange B meson, confirming that the Standard Model is holding strong, for now.

The company plans to argue that allowing customers or independent mechanics to repair their own phones could cause the lithium-ion batteries to catch fire, according to a report by Motherboard.

A massive repository of data gathered over a period of two decades by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii has now been made public.

The current record for the maximum number of satellites launched in a single mission is held by Russia, whose Dnepr rocket lifted off with a cluster of 37 satellites in June 2014.

Located over 19 million light-years from Earth in the Andromeda constellation, the galaxy resembles the Milky Way, but its diameter is just over half that of our home galaxy.

Is it dark energy, or do we need to rewrite the laws of gravity? Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have proposed an experiment to find out.

If the gravitational waves emitted by these intense fluctuations — which scientists believe took place less than a second after the Big Bang — are discovered, it could provide the much-needed evidence for cosmic inflation.

The 264-page report lists out three key science goals for a future lander mission, including, among other things, the search for life on the Jovian moon.

Scientists at NASA’s Glenn Research Center have developed a new computer chip that they say is capable of functioning even in the harsh conditions found on Venus.

A new study suggests that the nearest Earth-like planet may have too little oxygen and water to host life as we know it.

New evidence suggests that a black hole of roughly 2,200 solar masses is hiding in the center of a globular star cluster 13,000 light-years from Earth.

The AR Scorpii system, which consists of a rapidly spinning white dwarf and cool red dwarf, has been identified as a white dwarf pulsar — the first of its kind to be discovered.

The orbital angle of the spacecraft, which has been locked in orbit around Mars since October, was raised to almost 74 degrees from 7 degrees with respect to the planet's equator.

Physicists have, in an experiment that involved using 600-year-old starlight, confirmed that entanglement, wherein even particles separated by light-years can share an existence, is very real.

About 5,000 light-years from Earth, in the direction of the constellation Puppis, lies a stellar structure that goes by an unappetizing name — the Rotten Egg Nebula.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have put forth a proposal they say would allow tiny spacecraft to not only fly by our nearest stellar neighbor, but also stop by for a closer look.

The black hole, found lurking about 10,000 light-years away in the gas cloud of the supernova remnant W44, is believed to be just one of the millions peppered throughout our cosmic neighborhood.

In a new study, a team of researchers has attempted to explain why the "great oxidation event," which took place 2.4 billion years ago, did not generate enough oxygen for complex life to evolve.

A team of researchers has suggested that Ahuna Mons — the only extant ice volcano on the dwarf planet — may once have had company.

Our galaxy is not only being pulled through space at 1.2 million miles an hour by dense regions in its extragalactic neighborhood, it is also being pushed by a “void” that is largely devoid of galaxies.

During its closest approach at 7:57 a.m. EST Thursday, the spacecraft will pass roughly 2,670 miles above the gas giant’s cloud tops.

A team of researchers has, after examining the structural MRIs of 26 astronauts, revealed the impact spaceflight has on the shape of astronauts’ brains.

The proposed device, which would use trapped ions to carry out quantum computations, could occupy an entire football pitch if and when it's constructed.

Microfossils of the creature were found in China’s Shaanxi Province, and are estimated to be about 540 million years old — dating back to the early Cambrian period.

The detection, made by researchers associated with the LHCb experiment at CERN, could help scientists answer a longstanding question — why does the universe we live in exist?

While the final results of the Twins Study — which involved the twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly — are yet to be announced, the preliminary results are already throwing up some unexpected findings.

Astronomers are having a hard time categorizing the galaxy, located nearly 30 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici.

A three-second clip, made using images collected over a period of seven years, shows the four planets in the HR 8799 system orbiting their parent star.