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NGC 4388 — a galaxy roughly 60 light-years from Earth in the Virgo Cluster — has been observed exhibiting traits seen both in spiral as well as elliptical galaxies.

A report in Pyongyang's Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed photos of a mockup of South Korea's presidential Blue House as a target.

The constellation of eight little satellites will be launched Monday morning to low-Earth orbit on board an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket.

Turkey declared Sunday a day of national mourning after Saturday night's twin bombings near the home stadium of soccer giants Besiktas.

A team of researchers, using computer models to simulate the formation of a rare class of meteorites, has provided clues to when the gas giant formed.

Here are the lyrics to "Deck the Halls," "Silver Bells" and more.

Despite the chaos of war, Syrian social media users shared preparations to celebrate Christmas.

Despite a corruption scandal that toppled the last prime minister, Romania looks set to put the Social Democratic Union back in power.

The organization echoed concerns by leading scientists that fully autonomous weaponry would be bad for mankind.

The Nigerian city is on the edge of Boko Haram's headquarters in the Sambisa Forest and has been the target of previous suicide attacks and violence.

A study, based on experiments involving macaques, reveals that these primates possess the vocal tract anatomy needed to produce human-like speech.

Some Muslims oppose celebrating Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

The observations suggest that in many millisecond pulsar binary systems, the companion star’s strong magnetic field may be responsible for switching the pulsar on and off.

On Saturday, the Nobel Prizes in the sciences, economics and literature will be handed out during a ceremony in Stockholm, while the peace prize will be awarded in Oslo.

International conflicts in regions like Syria and Palestine have caused an unprecedented wave in refugees and displaced people into Europe and the Americas.

During Sunday’s flyby, when the spacecraft will pass just 2,580 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops, seven of its eight science instruments would be switched on.

The Japanese space agency launched a cargo ship carrying an electrodynamic tether, designed in collaboration with a fishnet maker, to remove some of the debris locked in orbit around Earth.

Despite humanitarian concerns, the Department of Defense cleared the way for billions in military equipment for belligerents in the Yemen war.

"That stock is held by millions of Americans ... and he said something that was not accurate that had a negative impact on that stock," Rove said.

The Free Democratic Party in the Netherlands has been reported to police over multiple inflammatory comments.

Senator Vadim Tyulpanov suggested Thursday that the Education and Science Ministry swap physical education classes for chess lessons in secondary school.

The country has the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on a long-range missile but is not yet able to land one on a target.

The dredging work is Vietnam's latest step toward defending its claim to the strategic waterway also claimed by China, Taiwan and others.

Missile and troop buildup is expected along NATO's eastern border next year, ushering in the president-elect's first foreign policy test.

The bill aims to ban mosques from using loudspeakers to announce the Islamic call to prayer.

The material is sensitive enough to detect the human heart rate through the skin and even the tiny footsteps of spiders.

No penalty was imposed on the  populist leader, who had been accused of insulting an ethnic group and inciting discrimination.

The galaxy SPT 0346-52, seen by astronomers as it was 12.7 billion years ago, is churning out stars at a staggering rate of 4,500 solar masses per year.

“Helicopters, warplanes and rocket bombardment like every day. Nothing has changed,” an official with the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters.