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The exercises simulated a 300 to 800-foot-wide asteroid impacting Southern California or just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean four years from now.

The Taurid meteor shower's two streams are scheduled to peak this Friday and Saturday as well as Nov. 11 and Nov. 12.

Mutations in the virus' proteins made humans the perfect host.

Jordanian forces said they opened fire on the vehicle carrying the U.S. personnel after it failed to stop at a security checkpoint.

Less than a month after the execution of a crown prince, an unnamed member of the Saudi Arabian royal family was sentenced to lashing by a court in the city of Jeddah.

A researcher from Rutgers University has come up with an innovative solution to the world’s nuclear waste problem — using glass to immobilize radioactive materials.

The chief of the U.S. forces in South Korea said the anti-missile system battery will be deployed to the region in the next eight to ten months, in the face of nuclear threats from North Korea.

Our current theoretical models tell us that the tetraneutron — a structure composed solely of four neutrons — shouldn't exist. But supercomputer simulations have now shown that such a particle may actually be real.

China aims to use the 187-foot, two-stage, heavy-lift rocket in fulfilling its plans to establish its own space station and in its future missions to the moon and Mars.

Several of the emails belonged to Russia’s former Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov and point to Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine.

In an interview with Russia Today on Saturday, the WikiLeaks founder accused Clinton of underplaying allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar's support to the Islamic State group.

The Paris Agreement became a law Friday, but a U.N. report issued Thursday warns a lot more needs to be done to avoid potentially catastrophic increases in global temperatures.

NATO held its war games in Montenegro, which is in the process of joining the military alliance, while Russia began a drill called “Slavic Brotherhood” in neighboring Serbia.

President Park Geun-hye’s close aide Choi Soon-sil was arrested for allegedly meddling in the affairs of the government, unleashing a controversy that could cost the president dear.

A new study that examined hundreds of mutational signatures in over 5,200 genome sequences of cancer cells has revealed the irreversible damage caused by tobacco smoke.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Germany's refugee policies would backfire.

South Korea made good on its pledge to open fire at illegal Chinese fishing boats, exacerbating the already tense situation between the two Asian Pacific nations.

Two 28-year-olds from Brisbane, who had never played golf professionally, claimed they were the Australian national team.

“The United States itself is facing a crisis—how can a crisis-stricken country resolve another country’s problems?” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday.

Individuals could be seen smashing graves at the Bab al-Rahmeh ("Gate of Mercy") Cemetery,  with heavy equipment as Israeli soldiers looked on in a video posted on social media.

WikiLeaks has released over 30,000 emails from Clinton’s private server, along with thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee and campaign manager John Podesta.

A mysterious object discovered in images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover last week is an iron-nickel meteorite, NASA has confirmed.

The High Court said the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which initiates the process of a member country leaving the E.U., without consulting the parliament.

This object, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a small galactic remnant, is a product of a collision between two galaxies.

The purchasing power of Chinese consumers in 2030 could match that of Americans in 2000, a new report says.

Move over Dead Sea. Here’s a water body, which even though underwater itself, kills almost anything that ventures inside it.

The images, captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, show gigantic columns of dissipating gas in the Carina nebula.

In a report Wednesday, the space agency outlined 25 "knowledge gaps" that need to be addressed to prevent contamination during human missions to alien planets and moons.

A first-of-its-kind instrument being developed at NASA will use the sense of smell to look for traces of life on the red planet.