Avaneesh Pandey

On Tuesday, researchers working on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder mission said they had exceeded the performance objectives of the mission.

Last month, Arctic sea ice spread over an area of 4.63 million square miles — 537,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average.

The country’s forex reserves — the largest in the world — fell by $27.93 billion in May to $3.19 trillion, the lowest since December 2011.

Scientists are now closer than ever to capturing an actual image of black holes — bodies that warp space-time to such an extent that not even light can escape their clutches.

Even when black holes disappear, information about all they have gobbled should not. A new study provides clues to how the data may be preserved.

Late on Monday, the country’s cabinet approved the National Transformation Program — an initiative aimed at diversifying the kingdom’s economy.

Modi’s trip to the U.S. — his fourth as India’s prime minister — is likely to focus on climate change, defense pacts and forging closer economic ties.

The 30-year-old, described as the U.K.’s worst pedophile, is believed to have sexually abused up to 200 children over nearly a decade.

Other than attracting interested companies, the European nation also announced it will draft “comprehensive” laws to facilitate asteroid mining.

Swaziland-born actress Noma Dumezweni is portraying Hermione Granger in the two-part play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

The experiments, carried out by scientists at the University of California, Davis, are part of an effort to grow human organs inside pigs.

New observations, carried out using the Hubble Space Telescope, indicate that the universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than previous estimates.

“We have many small and big enemies, but foremost among them are America and this very evil Britain,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech Friday.

Jeff Bezos’ space travel company joins five others that are already part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program.

Friday’s meeting in Paris, which will witness the participation of foreign ministers from 26 countries, has already been denounced by the Israeli government.

Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottomans in 1915-1916 — a massacre most historians now term genocide.

The new Artificial Intelligence system is capable of grasping the way we talk with a “near-human” accuracy, Facebook said Wednesday.

On Thursday, workers at 19 nuclear power plants across France will join the nationwide protests over a controversial labor reform bill.

The European Central Bank, already in the midst of a massive quantitative easing program, kept monetary policy unchanged Thursday.

If Britain chooses to leave the EU, its GDP by 2030 could be more than 5 percent lower than if it stays in the bloc, the Paris-based group warned.

The company, 10 percent of whose nearly 400 million users are Indian, has opened a new 220,000-square-foot office to accommodate over 800 employees in Bangalore.

The deal between the two utilities comes amid slowing U.S. electricity demand as consumers switch to more energy-efficient appliances.

The planet, which is about 40 percent larger than Earth, may have the conditions needed for supporting life as we know it to have evolved.

The famed British cosmologist called him a “demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator.”

The German automaker, still reeling under the effects of last year’s massive emissions scandal, reported lower-than-expected earnings.

Researchers have detected the amino acid glycine, commonly found in proteins, and phosphorus, a key component of DNA and cell membranes, in the coma of the comet.

The iconic structure, which stretches for nearly 1,400 miles off Australia's northeastern coast, is struggling to recover from the worst bleaching event in its history.

The move comes just days after Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, the chairman of the Wanda Group, said the Hong Kong-listed unit was “substantially undervalued.”

Mohammed Alloush’s resignation comes at a time when fighting between government and rebel forces in the war-torn nation shows no signs of abating.