Seen using gravitational lensing, the galaxy was formed about a billion years after the Big Bang, during a time known as the “Epoch of Reionization.”
Media reports had claimed the 8-year-old girl was found living with wild monkeys in a wildlife sanctuary in the northern India.
Leaders from G7 countries are meeting Tuesday, a week after the chemical attack in Syria, to call for a new international push to end the six-year-old civil war in the Middle East country.
According to Tahiti television station TNTV, Michelle and Barack Obama took a boat to Mo’orea island for swimming and other water activities.
Research published Monday suggests overfishing in regions with coral reefs has a twofold negative impact on the health of the corals.
The comments came at a time when the U.S. and its allies have held Moscow partially responsible for last week’s deadly chemical gas attack that killed nearly 100 people.
Reports have surfaced that "concentration camps" have been opened up in Chechnya where gay men are being detained and tortured to commit that they would leave the republic.
A photograph taken by the spacecraft Jan. 9, but released Monday by NASA, shows the various regions of the gas giant’s C ring.
Riot police fired tear gas at protesters who threw Molotov cocktail at law enforcement officials and burned tires on the fifth day of violent protests against President Nicolas Maduro.
Earth is not the only planet with beautiful auroras in its atmosphere — Uranus has them too.
Life formed in oceans that were more acidic than they are today, and that gives us insight into how climate change will affect the Earth’s marine habitats.
President Donald Trump cited the chemical attack as the primary reason behind the military response from the U.S. that included 59 Tomoahawk missiles.
When animals have too much sex with multiple partners, they are killing themselves.
Russian president Vladimir Putin regularly met with former secretary of state John Kerry when he visited Moscow.
Foreign relations leaders from a handful of countries, including the U.S., have made some bold threats in the days following American airstrikes against a Syrian air base.
An ancient human’s teeth show scratch marks from where holes were painfully drilled and stuffed with tar to fill a cavity.
The Egyptian Christian community was reeling in the aftermath of the deadly Palm Sunday bombings.
Both a Seoul official and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to assuage worries of a direct confrontation, but experts were skeptical of their optimism.
Coalition forces are battling to take the Mosul back from the Islamic State.
Cutting trees in tropical forests creates debris that finds its way to beaches in Colombia, one of the world’s most important nesting sites for leatherback turtles.
National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said Russia should be pushed to answer whether it knew about the latest chemical gas attack in Syria beforehand.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in northern Chile captured images from a stellar nursery about 1,350 light-years away from Earth.
The Court of Appeals in the Philippines upheld a lower court's conviction of Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton for the murder of Jennifer Laude.
The three astronauts left the International Space Station just before 4 a.m. EDT Monday, and landed in Kazakhstan about three hours and 20 minutes later.
The comments came after the U.S. carried out missile strikes on a Syrian government-controlled air base in retaliation to a fatal chemical gas attack last week.
The 8-year-old girl has been dubbed “Mowgli” because of the likeness with the feral child protagonist from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.”
The name "Palm Sunday" has been derived from Bible verses that described how Palm branches were laid down on Jesus’ path while he rode into Jerusalem.
U.K. Defense Secretary of State Michael Fallon claimed that Russian president was responsible “by proxy” for the chemical attack in Syria, as the “principal backer” of Assad’s regime.
The blast occurred on Coptic Christian Palm Sunday, a Christian feast commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said the war in Syria will not be over unless President Bashar Assad is removed from power.