Himanshu Goenka

The piece of space rock burnt up in the atmosphere, but produced a bright explosion in its final moments, which was caught on camera by a number of people.

Scientists studied the internal structure of the creature’s powerful club, and could develop materials for the aerospace and sports industries based on what they found.

Even though overall mortality rates in the United States have declined, the rate of the fall is slowed down by the increasing incidence of obesity, a study found.

The price of bitcoin, which was almost at $15,200 a week ago, was struggling to stay above $13,000 Tuesday morning after the report emerged from China.

Two upcoming rovers to Mars already feature laser equipment that work on the same principle, but new proposals plan to use lasers in space in entirely different ways.

An ancient fish species called lamprey can make a complete recovery from a severed spinal cord with no need for any medication or treatment of any kind.

Compared to people who only swim in the sea, surfers swallow about 10 times more seawater, which was the source of these bacteria in their guts.

Mayon is an active volcano that last erupted in 2014. It has been showing increased unrest since Saturday evening, and pyroclastic flow was seen Monday morning.

The central hub of our home galaxy, referred to as its bugle due to the Milky Way’s shape, was thought to be mostly full of the oldest stars in the galaxy.

Young stars are often surrounded by disks of gas and dust, and patterns in the debris — rings, arcs, spirals — are usually thought to be an indication of the presence of planets.

A day after news about a proposal to ban cryptocurrency exchanges in the country sent bitcoin prices falling, conflicting news from Seoul contributed to some recovery in bitcoin value.

The newly discovered planets are all part of the same star system about 620 light-years away, and were found using data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.

Diluvicursor pickeringi lived 113 million years ago in the great rift valley that existed at the time between present-day Australia and Antarctica.

The Senate Banking Committee will reportedly be meeting with top financial market regulators to discuss bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and the possible risks their trading poses.

Butterfly fossils dating back to 200 million years ago were found in present-day Germany, which is about 70 million years before the first flowering plants appeared.

FRB 121102 is the only known repeating fast radio burst observed, but scientists know very little about its exact nature or the environment that caused it.

Males of some species of birds of paradise have feathers that absorb as much light as the lining of space telescopes, and that blackness helps them find mating partners.

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai said Monday he had become 3 inches taller after spending only three weeks aboard the International Space Station.

The world’s best-known cryptocurrency has been through some wild swings the last two months, climbing to almost $20,000 and falling below $13,000 in just two weeks.

The net effect of the phenomenon is a massive loss of ice from Antarctica, even though the height of many ice shelves increases, a study found.

Rivers and streams across the continent, including the United States, are also turning more alkaline, and both facts together could potentially lead to another situation like the Flint water crisis.

It was launched Sunday by SpaceX, and the company said its Falcon 9 rocket “performed nominally” but the payload is reportedly just dead weight floating in space.

The East Asian country is a global hub for cryptocurrency trading, and is seeking cooperation with neighbors China and Japan to regulate the industry.

The dynamo is responsible for the 11-year solar cycle, the periodicity that affects the number of spots on the sun’s surface, as well as solar flares.

The increased weight of the water in oceans is causing the ground below to subside, a study found. But the ground is also rising under the glaciers that are melting.

The origin of the earliest animals is traced back to between 700 and 800 million years ago, with the oldest scientifically accepted estimate going back 850 million years.

It clocks in at over a monstrous 23 million digits long, and is in a rare class of numbers called Mersenne primes.

Brown dwarfs are dozens of times bigger than gas giants like Jupiter, but are not massive enough to be stars. NASA’s new space telescope will investigate their mysterious evolution.

Extreme weather conditions affecting the East Coast caused the launch date to be moved to Jan. 7. Elon Musk also said the Falcon Heavy would launch end January.