Himanshu Goenka

The night of Sunday, Dec. 3, had the first and only supermoon in 2017. Here are some stunning pictures of the moon, as seen in various places around the planet.

Black holes are formed when stars collapse, or when neutron stars merge. But some theories hypothesize black holes existed even before stars had formed in the universe.

Subsurface oceans on icy bodies in the outer solar system, beyond Neptune’s orbit, could exist because of their interaction with their moons, including on Pluto.

Detection of the distant binary system was almost a surprise finding. The black holes, with about 200 million solar masses combined, photobombed images of the nearby Andromeda galaxy.

Value of the cryptocurrency has grown in leaps and bounds over the last two years, briefly crossing the $11,000-mark Nov. 29.

Scientists used X-ray analysis from the synchrotron at the Argonne National Laboratory to understand where the little mummified girl came from.

Given the possible patterns of how air flows on some potentially Earth-like exoplanets, it may be that signs of life exist along or close to their equators.

The previous record was held by another quantum simulator that uses laser-trapped cold atoms to control 51 qubits.

The Boring Company will bid to "fund, build & operate a high-speed Loop connecting Chicago O’Hare Airport to downtown," Musk said Wednesday.

A federal court in California ordered the cryptocurrency brokerage to hand over information about customers who traded upward of $20,000 in bitcoin.

It has seven new instruments and different scientific objectives, but NASA’s upcoming mission to Mars is also similar to its predecessor in many ways.

The Yeti is a Himalayan legend, but scientific analysis of its bones, teeth, hair, skin, and feces shows they actually came from different bear species.

The Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is home to underground rivers and underwater caves that are rich in methane. Despite being near the coast, the ecosystem is much like the deep ocean.

The data was collected by Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia satellite, and it also questions the standard model predictions of dark matter halos around galaxies.

The biochemical agent developed by South Korean scientists was tried on lab mice who showed new hair follicle growth after four weeks of application.

“Mad” Mike Hughes was to launch the rocket, which he made mostly from salvaged parts, Saturday but lack of permission from the Bureau of Land Management got in the way.

Ever since Dolly was euthanized in 2003, there had been concerns that cloned animals were prone to early onset of age-related diseases.

Polar bears are generally solitary, but have sometimes been seen playing together in small numbers. Dozens of them in one place is very unusual behavior for the threatened species.

About 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second, and the number that passes through Earth is much higher.

A new method of measurement is modeled on thermonuclear explosions on the surface of the stars, which are the second-most dense objects known in the universe.

They consume less energy than older lighting technologies, cutting down the electricity bill, but their increasing use has led to higher levels of light pollution.

These two mysterious entities are together thought to account for over 95 percent of all energy in the observable universe, and are largely accepted as real in the astronomy community.

The precious metal has been used by humans for thousands of years but despite its allure, we still don’t fully understand how its deposits are formed.

NASA released a mosaic of 42 images Tuesday that were taken by its Cassini spacecraft Sept. 13, two days before its 13-year mission to the Saturn system ended.

“Mad” Mike Hughes doesn’t believe in science and as he launches himself on a self-built rocket Saturday; he will also launch his bid to become California’s next governor.

The region is along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and compact seafloor sediments are heightening the pre-existing danger, a study claimed Monday.

The flies, Ephydra hians, dive under the lake’s surface to forage and lay eggs, and their unusual ability to remain dry was noticed by Mark Twain almost 150 years ago.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Sunday night: “Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”

Under a new initiative called Pokémon GO Travel, the game-makers have taken three players to Japan to participate in the new challenge.