China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.
A rocket heading for the moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades blasted off from China on Tuesday in the latest milestone for Beijing's spacefaring ambitions.
Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the social media companies said on Saturday.
A Tunisian startup is developing a 3D-printed bionic hand, hoping the affordable and solar-powered prosthetic will help amputees and other disabled people across Africa.
SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring.
Facebook Monday acknowledged glitches in enforcing its policy on removing misleading political advertising for the US election after a report revealed banned...
Saudi Arabia is planning an 8 billion riyals ($2.1 billion) boost for its space program by 2030 under an economic diversification plan that aims to attract...
Dubai is introducing a facial recognition system on public transport to beef up security, officials said Sunday, as the emirate prepares to host the global...
A mother in Sweden has been arrested on suspicion of locking her son inside their apartment for 28 years, leaving him undernourished and with almost no teeth,...
Somali-American model Halima Aden has announced that she is taking a step back from the fashion industry, saying the pandemic slowdown has allowed her to see...
U.K. regulators went on the offensive Friday to beat back criticism that they rushed their authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine, saying they rigorously...
Recent progress on COVID-19 vaccines is positive but the World Health Organization is concerned this has led to a growing perception that the pandemic has...
The state of Lebanon’s wine industry has previously been assessed to be in dire straits thanks to the current depth of crises facing the country.
Italy is to offer Europe's first coronavirus-free corridor with the United States for passengers who have tested negative for Covid-19, scrapping the...
Boeing Co reported its fourth straight quarterly loss Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic and 737 MAX grounding continued to hammer sales, while reaffirming...
Mazda beat traditional winners Lexus and Toyota to win top honors as the most dependable auto brand in Consumer Reports' annual reliability survey.
Honda on Wednesday won approval to sell Level 3 autonomous cars in Japan, in what the automaker and Japanese authorities said was a world-first.
Saudi Arabia launched Wednesday a national artificial intelligence strategy aimed at making it a global leader in the field as it seeks to diversify its...
As automation and online work gain ground, organizers of the annual Davos forum are projecting employers will split work equally between machines and people...
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the...
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the...
A much-hyped network upgrade called "5G" means different things to different people.
Apple's four new iPhones announced Tuesday will be 5G capable of connecting to the fast new wireless networks which are being upgraded worldwide.
Apple Inc on Tuesday launched its next-generation iPhone 12, with faster 5G connectivity that the California company hopes will spur consumers to trade in...
Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the...
Supreme Court justices discussed restaurant menus, computer keyboards, songs and even the periodic table Wednesday in trying to resolve a copyright dispute...
Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the...
Cormeilles-en-Vexin, France, Sept 30, 2020 (AFP) - "Flying taxis" will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators said,...
A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key...
Facebook is launching a new initiative this week to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the latest effort by the social network...
University of Washington ecologist Christopher Schell is studying how coronavirus shutdowns have affected wildlife in Seattle and other cities.
The world's first electric-powered hydrofoil speedboat, which reduces energy consumption and noise - as well as sea sickness - by "flying" above the waves,...
It might seem like a flight of fancy, but a Japanese firm says it is one step closer to making flying cars a reality after testing a drone-like prototype.
Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent...
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that the frequency of sophisticated cyber attacks against hospitals,...
Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom - the video-conferencing service that powers everything from...
Germany's leading infectious disease institute said Wednesday a first vaccine against the coronavirus could be available as early as autumn but warned that it...
Twitter Inc Tuesday rolled out a moderation feature that would allow its users to limit how many people can reply to their tweets, giving account-holders more...