Avaneesh Pandey

Bernie Sanders urged Israel to end the economic blockade of Gaza and to release millions of shekels in tax revenue that has been withheld from Palestinians.

HD 20782, located nearly 117 light-years from Earth, has an eccentricity of 0.96, meaning its orbit is a nearly flat ellipse.

An unprecedented rise in ocean temperatures and acidity, caused, to a large extent, by human-induced climate change, has triggered the death of large chunks of corals in the region.

Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured by pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine in June 2014, was charged with directing mortar fire that killed two Russian journalists.

Two armed British ships arrived at the eastern Japanese coastal village of Tokai Monday to carry nearly 730 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to the U.S.

In the quarter ending December 2015, the energy giant is expected to report net income of $1.05 billion, emerging from a $1.03 billion loss in the previous quarter.

Pluto may no longer be defined as a planet but it has never been more popular.

The Large Hadron Collider's previous run revealed clues to the possible existence of a new heavy particle. Fresh analysis of data has kept those hopes alive.

In an op-ed published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers have made an argument for the Guantánamo Bay detention camp to be turned into a marine research center.

Thursday's announcement to create a self-run Kurdish entity within Syria triggered immediate condemnation from the U.S., Turkey and the Syrian government.

The American jewelry giant is likely to report a drop in revenue as the dollar's appreciation has made its products more expensive in other currencies.

Wiles — a British number theorist who is now a professor at the University of Oxford — solved the deceptively complex problem in 1994.

Investors entered a wait-and-watch mode Wednesday as they awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve's guidance on the trajectory of interest rates.

The long-anticipated merger would create a pan-European entity worth an estimated $30 billion.

The Israeli government has expropriated over 230 hectares of land near the Palestinian city of Jericho in a move that drew condemnation from the U.N. and the U.S.

Last month, South Korea’s unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent — the highest since February 2010.

The motive for the apparent attack and the circumstances surrounding the explosion in the German capital are not immediately clear.

The spacecraft, which consists of a lander and an orbiter, is designed to search for methane and its source in Mars' atmosphere.

Of the 55.6 million deaths worldwide in 2012, 12.6 million were attributable to preventable environmental risk factors, the World Health Organization said in a report.

The two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee that begins Tuesday would still be closely watched for clues to future policy moves.

The Japanese central bank, which took the unexpected decision of adopting negative interest rates in January, held the reserves deposit rate at -0.1 percent Tuesday.

Yazidi women who escaped captivity told the New York Times that their captors used several forms of contraceptives to ensure they did not get pregnant.

Lee’s victory, which comes after three consecutive losses in the five-game series against Google’s AlphaGo, proves that the program is far from invincible.

The RS-25 rocket engine would eventually power NASA’s Space Launch System — a successor to the agency’s now-defunct Space Shuttle program.

Chief prosecutor Cao Jianming and Chief Justice Zhou Qiang said Sunday that combating “infiltration, subversion and sabotage” would be the administration’s key priority.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish National Party would launch a “new initiative” to build support for the region’s independence.

The collaboration between the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos will analyze the planet’s atmosphere for signs of microbial life.

Kelly, who holds the American record for most time in space, made his first trip to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1999.

The program took an unassailable lead in the five-game Go series against its human competitor, marking a watershed moment in machine learning.