Avaneesh Pandey

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

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 team of researchers have calculated the estimated mass of a hypothetical class of particles known as axions, which they believe may make up dark matter.

Just days after it successfully inserted an orbiter around the red planet, the European Space Agency revealed fresh details of the second phase of the ExoMars 2020 mission.

Researchers from the University of Houston have succeeded in inducing superconductivity in calcium iron arsenide — a compound that, under normal conditions, is not superconducting.

According to a new study, structures resembling multi-storey parking garages are found both in eukaryotic cells and neutron stars.

The world’s largest particle accelerator, which began its 2016 run in May, also surpassed its target for the total number of proton-proton collisions.

African countries lose roughly $25 million annually in tourism revenue as a direct result of the current poaching crisis, according to a new study.

The observations, made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, mark the first time the birth of a triple-star system has been directly witnessed.

Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant long demonized as the person responsible for the spread of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., did not bring the disease to the country, a new study revealed.

The solar-powered spacecraft, which unexpectedly entered into safe mode last week, is now responding to commands ahead of its Dec. 11 flyby.

The Breakthrough Listen project, funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, will try to find if "the most mysterious star in our galaxy" is surrounded by an alien megastructure.

The company, known for its short-lived messaging concept, is currently preparing to begin offering shares to the public early next year.

A study has revealed that the Smith Glacier — one of the fastest-melting glaciers in the region — may have lost as much as 1,600 feet in thickness from 2002 to 2009.

The resolution, titled “Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls,” was passed Wednesday with 10 votes in its favor from a committee of 21 members.

Back pain in astronauts who have undertaken lengthy sojourns in low-gravity is caused by atrophying paraspinal muscles, a NASA-funded study has revealed.

According to a paper published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, the “residual diversity” method — used to correct for sampling biases in fossil records — is deeply flawed.

The ESA’s ExoMars Schiaparelli lander was supposed to have made a soft landing on the surface of the red planet last week.

The discovery of the warm disk around the red dwarf AWI0005x3s was made by the "Disk Detective" project, which enlisted the help of eight citizen scientists for the task.

Using computer simulations to model the formation of planets around low-mass stars, astrophysicists argued that these stars may be hosting planets containing large amounts of water.

The proposal, which sought to create an 8 million-square-mile sanctuary for whales, failed to win the votes of whaling nations, including Iceland, Japan and Norway.

Analysts expect the company, which released its latest iPhones last month, to report Tuesday its third consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline in earnings and revenue.

The landmark ruling sets an important precedent that may allow climate change risks to be used as criteria for granting protection to other at-risk species.

In 2015, for the first time in over 3 million years, the average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was higher than 400 parts per million.

A team of researchers has, based on analysis of 740 Type Ia supernovae, questioned the veracity of a central tenet of modern cosmology.

A team of researchers has created an artificial intelligence algorithm that in almost four out of five cases at the European Court of Human Rights correctly predicted the outcome.

On Sunday, Elon Musk shed further light on his plan to colonize Mars. The first inhabitants of the red planet would probably live in geodesic domes surrounded with a horde of mining "droids," he said.

The cash-and-stock transaction, announced by the U.S. aircraft component maker Sunday, would likely be completed next spring.