Himanshu Goenka

Named after the Titan from Greek mythology, it is in a binary star system and has likely consumed rocky mass equal to 15 Earths.

The ability to directly measure the distance to a star-forming region all the way across the galaxy would also allow us to map the Milky Way better.

There are billions of planets outside the solar system within our own galaxy, but finding them is difficult, given the distance and their dimness.

Earlier suggestions said the last common ancestor, which hasn’t been specifically identified but lived sometime between 23 million and 5 million years ago, was similar to modern chimpanzees.

The distant dwarf planet may find its classification downgraded since it probably does not meet all the criteria to be in the same class as Pluto.

The surface of the red planet is covered in many places with large dunes and smaller ripples, which may not be entirely made up of sand.

Methane is next only to carbon dioxide in its warming effect as a greenhouse gas and India is its world’s second-largest emitter, according to official data.

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in southwest China began operations on Sept. 25, 2016, and is still in its trial phase.

Space-based telescopes are better than their Earth-based counterparts because the atmosphere reduces the intensity of light that reaches the ground.

Even though there is no evidence yet to suggest the red planet itself had life in the past, Mars had the right conditions for it billions of years ago.

A Type Ia supernova is the explosion of a white dwarf star which is in a binary system with another star that may or may not be also a white dwarf.

A new virtual reality animation shows the reconstruction process that was used to create portraits of two children from 30,000 years ago, who lived in Sungir in present-day Russia.

About 7 million years ago, when ancient human ancestors split from chimpanzees, they left behind HSV2, the form of the virus that causes genital herpes.

The Elon Musk company has committed to setting up a 129 MWh Powerpack system — effectively the world’s largest battery — in Australia in 100 days, or give it for free.

No matter how exciting a life you lead, being bored is a familiar feeling to all of us, as are its sleep-inducing effects.

Most current methods of determining the age of sharks rely on counting the growth rings of their vertebrae — similar to what is done with trees and their trunks.

Micrometeoroids are pieces of disintegrated long-period comets and the dawn on Mercury, given its slow rotation speed, lasts several Earth days.

A strong solar storm hit the red planet in the second week of September, and caused a global aurora that covered all of Mars.

Over a year after it was launched, China used its quantum communication satellite for a secure video link between Beijing and Austria.

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed two entangled galaxies about 24 million light-years away that together form a system called Arp 269.

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope was scheduled to launch in October 2018, but will now leave Earth at least 6 months later.

The SpaceX CEO presented Friday the latest version of his Interplanetary Spaceship & Rocket design at the ongoing International Aeronautical Conference 2017 in Adelaide, Australia.

Other than accretion, the process involved collisions between planetary bodies, vaporized rock and the resulting silicate atmospheres.

Some astronomers trying to answer that question looked at the Saturn Nebula using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Uromys vika lives in trees and grows up to one-and-a-half feet long. The rodent was discovered in Solomon Islands and likely to be classified as critically endangered.

The newly identified species of smiley-faced spiders have been named after Leonardo DiCaprio, Bernie Sanders, Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie and David Attenborough, among others.

Body-mounted cameras show penguins targeting jellyfish and other gelatinous organisms — food sources not previously associated with the birds.

A new SuperCam onboard the rover will provide it the ability of Raman spectroscopy, which can detect signatures of carbon-based organic materials.

Located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx, J0811+4730 has the least oxygen for any known star-forming galaxy.