Science & Technology

Albuquerque (United States) (AFP) - Skygazers across the Americas turned their faces upwards Saturday for a rare celestial event: an annular solar eclipse.  A crowd of people wearing protective eyewear...

London (AFP) - Xbox maker Microsoft closed its blockbuster acquisition of Activision Blizzard, whose video games include "Call of Duty" and "Candy Crush", sealing one of the biggest technology tie-ups...

Washington (AFP) - For the first time ever, a NASA probe is set to journey to an object composed not of rock, ice, or gas, but metal: the asteroid Psyche....

Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - It's a world like no other: a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps an entirely new...

Houston (AFP) - A sample collected from the 4. 5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on...

Houston (AFP) - NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the...

Paris (AFP) - Claudia Goldin has long thought of herself as a kind of detective within economics, employing tools across academic disciplines in a quest to examine how women fit...

Moscow (AFP) - The Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) sprung its third coolant leak in under a year Monday, raising new questions about the reliability of the...

Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in...

Washington (AFP) - Adventurer Namira Salim became the first Pakistani to travel into space on Friday, riding aboard Virgin Galactic's fifth successful flight in five months, the US company announced....