Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission.

China has granted a license to a South Korean mobile game, raising hopes of an improvement in the two countries' relations and pushing up shares in games and entertainment firms.

A Chinese space probe has lifted off from the surface of the Moon to return to Earth, an ambitious effort to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000, rock-bottom prices that are intended to set a precedent for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector.

A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticizing the company's diversity efforts, a claim the Alphabet Inc unit disputed, in the latest brush-up between the internet giant and worker activists.

For decades scientists have been trying to figure out how to swiftly predict the twisting, tangled shape of proteins -- and from there unravel a greater understanding of the machinery of life itself.      

Scientists said they have restored sight in mice using a "milestone" treatment that returns cells to a more youthful state and could one day help treat glaucoma and other age-related diseases.

The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) revealed in July 2020 that FDI fell 6.9 percent year-on-year (yoy) to Rp 97.6 trillion (US$6,93 billion) in the April-June period. Yet, amid such a gloomy picture, it turns out that global firms are still quite upbeat about the potential of the Indonesian digital economy, particularly that of local e-commerce and financial technology (fintech) platforms.

Valentyn Frechka was a high school student living in rural Ukraine when he began a science project to turn fallen leaves from trees and plants into paper.

The university had received a mandate from the government to produce medical kits to test COVID-19, vaccines, as well as medicines for the coronavirus in cooperation with several strategic partners.

Teen banking app Step has raised $50 million from investors led by Coatue Management alongside celebrities such as singer Justin Timberlake, influencer Charli D'Amelio and former quarterback Eli Manning.

In a corner of the campus at Riga Technical University, a team of scientists is working on technology that could one day stop asteroids from smashing into Earth.

Amazon.com Inc's cloud unit offered a new supercomputing service based on its self-designed processors, a further sign of how chips based on Arm Ltd's technology are encroaching on Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc turf.

BlackBerry and Amazon announced an alliance to create a cloud computing platform that cars could link to for services and insights based on data from vehicles and users..

The celebrated Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico, which once starred in a James Bond film, collapsed Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver platform plunged 450 feet (140 meters) onto the radio dish below.

Grab, a leading all-in-one application in Southeast Asia, and the Banyuwangi administration in East Java have announced a strategic partnership to continue developing the regency’s digital economy.

A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries.

US tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes.

Facebook on Monday announced it is buying a startup specializing in helping businesses interact with customers online.

Hydrogen-powered car manufacturer Riversimple is hoping to steal a march on competitors ahead of Britain's promised "green revolution" that would see petrol-powered cars banned within 10 years.

Land transportation that relies on clean energy is the dream of many environmentally conscious leaders, and electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming an increasingly popular alternative for their potential contributions to a pollution-free environment.

With most retailers shifting their focus from brick-and-mortar outlets to e-commerce, brands shutting down physical outlets and shopping malls struggling to hold tenants, a phenomenon called “retail apocalypse” has begun across various parts of Asia.

Anggia Prasetyoputri and Latifah Nurahmi were found to have made extraordinary contributions to innovations to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

International and Cypriot experts on Friday discussed a research project to test space equipment on the Mediterranean island before sending it to Mars to measure the age of its rocks.

Countries must do more to combat racial profiling, UN rights experts said, warning that artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition and predictive policing risked reinforcing the harmful practice.

Dutch students have created a fully functioning electric car made mostly out of waste, including plastics fished out of the sea, recycled PET bottles and household garbage.

When you have a powerful mobile device in your hands that enables you to use many digital tools and platforms, you are more likely to keep up with the latest situation and its rapid changes, whether for work or everyday life.

SpaceX will continue beta testing its satellite-based broadband service Starlink into next year, the company said late Tuesday, indicating commercial service would not likely be offered in 2020 as previously planned.

Chinese ride-sharing company Didi began rolling out a service in Mexico this week to let female drivers select only other women as their passengers.

Twitter Inc released plans for its new policy on how people are "verified" on the site, an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue check-mark badges it uses to authenticate the identity of prominent accounts.