Avaneesh Pandey

Quantum data locking, which uses quantum states of subatomic particles to encode and encrypt messages, may one day be utilized to create truly unbreakable codes.

Amid flaring tensions between Native American tribes and law enforcement officials, a federal judge said Tuesday that construction work would be halted in an area near Lake Oahe until Friday.

A new study argues that all carbon in Earth’s mantle may have been brought here by a collision with a Mercury-like protoplanet 4.4 billion years ago.

By 2080, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct. Now, researchers have argued that this estimate may be too optimistic.

Over the past 40 years, driven by warming seas, typhoons in the northwest Pacific have intensified by 12 to 15 percent on average, according to a new study.

The European Space Agency lander, which touched down on the comet 67P in 2014, was discovered by the Rosetta spacecraft’s high-resolution OSIRIS camera.

The new images, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, provide a macroscopic picture of how solar wind forms and evolves.

The Israeli company’s AMOS-6 satellite was on board the ill-fated Falcon 9 rocket that exploded at SpaceX’s Florida launch site Thursday.

The summit in Hangzhou, China, came at a time when doubts are being raised about the benefits of an open world economy.

Although conservation efforts led by the Chinese government have led to a rebound in the giant panda population in recent years, climate change still threatens to reverse the gains.

Ahuna Mons, an isolated mountain on Ceres that rises to a height to 13,000 feet, may be a cryovolcano — a volcano that erupts molten and salty water-ice instead of lava.

The spacecraft, which aims to understand how all rocky planets in our solar system, including Earth, formed and evolved, was originally scheduled for launch earlier this year.

The images, captured during Juno’s first flyby of the gas giant, show chaotic storm systems and weather activity unlike anything seen on the other gas giants of our solar system.

The U.S. has joined China in formally ratifying the Paris climate agreement, which only comes into effect once at least 55 countries ratify it.

Fresh analysis of data gathered by the ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the earliest stars in the universe burst into existence much later than previously believed.

In an interview with an Irish newspaper, the Apple boss said the EU’s ruling that his company should pay $14.5 billion in back taxes to Ireland was “total political crap.”

Google’s artificial intelligence research arm has partnered with the U.K. to develop an algorithm that can recognize cancerous cells.

Hit by a loss in genetic diversity, these mountain lions now face a 99.7 percent chance of extinction over the next 50 years.

The controversial move, whose efficacy has been questioned by several conservation groups, is aimed at discouraging poaching.

Researchers associated with the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey have created a “photo album” of over 70,000 galaxies spanning 12 billion years of cosmic history.

A new study has found that even if poaching is curbed with immediate effect, it would take almost a century for the forest elephant population to bounce back.

SES, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator, will launch its satellite on board a “flight-proven” Falcon 9 rocket later this year.

The massive star, located 12,000 light-years from Earth, simultaneously exhibits traits that have only ever been observed in extremely old stars, and some that are only associated with protostars.

The location and orbits of several newly-discovered trans-Neptunian objects make the existence of a ninth “Planet X” all the more likely, a new study says.

A new study states that the discrepancy between our galaxy’s observed and real mass can be explained by events that took place 6 million years ago.

According to a new study, more than half of the groundwater in the region now has excessive amounts of arsenic and salinity, making it unfit for consumption or irrigation.

The 52-year-old Chinese man is accused of raping and killing 11 female victims — including one who was just 8 years old — between 1988 and 2002.

In a new paper, a team of U.S. physicists have detailed the design of a viable and efficient fusion device — one that already exists in an experimental form.

Juno flew by the gas giant at a distance of merely 2,600 miles from its atmosphere — the closest any spacecraft has ever flown to Jupiter.