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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists create a road map of the probes’ future trajectories, giving a broader context to what they are currently observing in their vicinity.

According to researchers, solar flares can trigger a process known as dielectric breakdown in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon, melting the lunar soil almost as much as meteoroid impacts would.

The Caribbean island nation saw a 13 percent increase in tourists from North America and Europe in 2016.

Healthcare unions have contested the British prime minister’s attempt at reassuring the public that funding for the National Health Service was at record levels.

The fast food giant will retain only 20 percent stake in the business, while Chinese state-backed Citic Group and America's Carlyle Group will have 52 percent and 28 percent stake, respectively.

Twenty-four Apache attack helicopters will be deployed in South Korea by February to counter growing threats from North Korea.

Some 2,800 pieces of military hardware arrived in the German port city of Bremerhaven, including 87 tanks and 144 Bradley fighting vehicles.

A Palestinian identified as Fadi al-Quanbar drove a flat-bed truck into a group of soldiers getting off a bus in Jerusalem.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, had wide influence in Iran as a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani and an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 

Queen Elizabeth II, 90, missed her regular appearances at the church service on Christmas and New Year’s Day as she was “recuperating” from a heavy cold.

Once complete, the telescopes — located over 17,200 feet above sea level — will try to detect faint echoes resonating in the universe from its earliest days.

Kim was honored publicly on his birthday only once so far when former NBA star Dennis Rodman dedicated a special game to his “best friend” and sang “Happy birthday” for the North Korean leader.

The two discoveries, from galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way, were made using a NASA instrument that can detect X-rays.

Theology students at a prestigious U.K. university were warned they may witness disturbing images when reading about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The city — covered in thick smog for over a week now — will deploy a special police team, use less coal and cleaner fuel, among other means, to tackle air pollution.

“Instead of ‘sending a message’ with a toothless resolution, we should inflict real pain on U.N. for anti-Israel bias,” the GOP senator said in a tweet late Saturday.

A composite of two separate images, taken Nov. 20 by a high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, was released Friday.

Warm temperatures and resultant rising sea levels, caused by melting glaciers and polar snow caps, almost killed off the natural wonder during the Last Interglacial period.

Kim Jong Un, the world's youngest state head of state, turned 33 Sunday, a week after announcing his latest achievement throughout a five-year rule that has been as enigmatic as it has been controversial.

"If the American imperialists provoke us a bit, we will not hesitate to slap them with a pre-emptive nuclear strike," Kim once said.

Queen Elizabeth is also the mother of four children and has an extensive extended family whose lives are also expected to change in the event of her death or abdication. 

Fifteen Eastern Orthodox churches and several others, including ones in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia and Macedonia, celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7.

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the activity was observed in the third star system outside our own where astronomers have detected comets.

A United Nations Security Council vote in December condemned Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas as “a flagrant violation under international law.”

A North Atlantic Ocean circulation system — at the center of the 2004 disaster film — is assumed to be more stable than it possibly is, climate scientists warn.

A call last month between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and President-elect Donald Trump angered China, which questioned the U.S. commitment to the “one China” policy.

The future event, prophesized by a first of its kind scientific prediction, will be visible to the naked eye if and when it occurs.

Seasonal snow melt generally feeds into rivers, providing water to communities in the Central Asian countries and the Xinjiang region of China.

Mohammad Bakhtar, a 19-year-old Iranian soldier risked his life to save a dog and lost his leg in the process, drawing support for him across the nation.