Himanshu Goenka

Images of the ring around Fomalhaut — a 440-million-years-old star about 25 light-years from Earth — were captured using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.

The largest unnamed body in the solar system provisionally called 2007 OR10, is one of the nine known dwarf planets, and is located in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

Scientists made thousands of caterpillars with modeling clay and glued them on plants across over 30 sites around the world.

One of the biggest problems in developing a functional, scalable quantum computer is the lack of stability of qubits — the quantum counterpart of digital bits.

Of the five mass extinction events in the last 450 million years, we know the cause of the third, fourth and the fifth, and now also possibly of the first.

Yes, according to historical and modern data, and new research suggests it is because intelligence provides us the ability to rise above our instincts.

One of the largest dinosaurs to have lived, the bite of Tyrannosaurus rex could crush up to 8,000 pounds, which is about the weight of three small cars.

Travis Kalanick, CEO of the ride-hailing company, called Tesla CEO Elon Musk to propose a self-driving partnership between the two companies, a new book says.

Modern humans are a species of the Homo genus, whose oldest-known members evolved about 2.8 million years ago.

Called KELT-11b, the exoplanet, located about 320 light-years away, is about 20 percent Jupiter’s mass but is still 40 percent larger in size.

A new theory involving quantum vacuum offers a possible reason that causes the phenomenon, which was first discovered by astronomers in 1998.

The planet which orbits Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system, was discovered in August 2016 and is probably of a similar size as Earth.

Campi Flegrei, mostly underwater to the west of Naples, is a large caldera — almost 40 square miles — that last erupted in 1538.

The collaboration will work on self-driving technology and test autonomous cars on the road, in a bid to take on the world’s largest ride-hailing company, Uber.

Known as anoxia, the depletion of oxygen in Earth’s oceans is rebalanced naturally through a cycle that involves carbon being buried in the ocean floor sediment.

Astronomers may have found a supermassive black hole that has left its usual place at the center of its galaxy and is on the move.

HAT-P-26b is about 430 light-years away from Earth, is similar in size to Neptune but its orbit is closer to its star than the ice giant’s is to the sun.

The system, whose existence was announced in February, has seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are in the star’s habitable zone. But the system was initially thought be highly unstable.

Bitcoin, the most popular of the digital currencies, crossed another all-time high benchmark of $1,800 at the end of Wednesday trade.

The technology, developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota, could also be applied in the future to printing electronics on human skin.

Io, one of Jupiter’s 67 known moons and the innermost among the Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system.

The cryptocurrency is an unregulated way of doing commercial transactions and is fast growing in popularity and demand.

Named after the fictional monster in the 1984 film which it resembles in appearance, the ankylosaur lived about 75 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period.

The oviraptorosaur species, named Beibeilong sinesis, is the largest known dinosaur to have sat on its nest and cared for its young.

The Rising Star subterranean cave system in South Africa earlier yielded the largest known cache of fossils of an older human species.

In the last 35 years, average life expectancy in the United States has increased, but there is a growing geographical disparity within the country.

The process explained in a new study could also be ongoing on other stellar bodies, like exoplanets, and creating oxygen without the need of any biological inputs.

According to a Citibank analyst, potential companies on the iPhone maker’s radar include Walt Disney and Netflix, among others.

The Elon Musk company has a number of launches queued up in the next two months, including a space station resupply mission and another which will use a refurbished Falcon 9 rocket.