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After a 42-month journey, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid 162173 Ryugu, 300 million km from Earth, on 27 June at 02:35 CEST (00:35 GMT).

Data from the international Cassini spacecraft have revealed complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean-world hosts conditions suitable for life.

Jason Snell, Macworld: You probably already know about Dark Mode and desktop Stacks and Gallery View, but they are just the top-level features in a surprisingly deep update. There are other fun features hiding just benea...

NASA announced that the next launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was to be in May 2020. However, due to budget overruns and various delays over the last 20 years the launch date has been postponed to a later ...

I'm sure that one's not on our list WHEN it comes to habitat, human beings are creatures of habit. It has been known for a long time that, whether his habitat is a village, a city or, for real globe-trotters, the planet ...

When Apple announced iOS 12 at its developer conference earlier this month, there was an unusual lack of new features to show off. This year, we aren't getting many fancily redesigned apps, new lock screens, or any of th...

Some believe Facebook is already using our smartphones to hear our private conversations. That's not true, but the social network is certainly considering it. Facebook has applied for a new patent that describes a method...

The Foxconn plant President Trump helps launch Thursday in Mount Pleasant likely will be smaller, at least initially, than originally planned.        

The 'dark web' -- a series of websites accessible through the anonymous Tor browser, which lends a tends a thin veil of anonymity to users -- shot to prominence as a place to buy almost anything thanks to a 2011 Gawker p...

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years away is much like Earth.

For the last few months, fans have been clamoring about an unpatchable hardware exploit that allows people to jailbreak the Nintendo Switch. The excitement around being able to do nearly anything on the console is less t...

Too bad the van won't put the groceries away for me.

Asimo's death marks the end of an era of hope for robotics.

Around sunrise on Feb. 15, 2013, an extremely bright and otherworldly object was seen streaking through the skies over Russia before it exploded about 97,000 feet above the Earth's surface. The resulting blast damaged th...

(Reuters) - A federal court in Dallas on Wednesday halved the $500 million verdict that a jury ordered Facebook Inc, its virtual reality unit Oculus, and others to pay ZeniMax Media Inc, a video game publisher that alleg...

A little-known, Florida-based marketing firm called Exactis may be responsible for a significant amount of personal data being exposed. According to a report from Wired, the firm left 340 million individual records on a ...

It’s not uncommon for people to think that Facebook is spying on their conversations when online ads appear to advertise something they discussed offline. The reality is often simply coincidence or more often based on ...

Are confused about choosing a path in life or your next career move? Do you feel like you are afraid of making the wrong decision? If so, read what a Nobel Prize-winning idea in physics says about different paths.

The diversity of ideas, minds, experiences, and tastes is an integral part of being a human. It is what makes our world beautiful. However, diversity also has a practical function and an important one for businesses -- a...

To hear Facebook tell it, no one at the company is secretly using your phone's microphone to listen in on your conversations for the purpose of ad targeting.  But that doesn't mean they aren't open to the possibility. ...

The space between stars may look pretty empty--and for most mundane intents and purposes, it is--but it's actually full of electromagnetic radiation and vast clouds of matter, together collectively known as the interstel...

An employee of the Hawaii agency that mistakenly sent cellphone and broadcast alerts warning of a missile attack earlier this year says he saw staff members watching movies or TV shows on the job