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16 years ago today, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which it landed on in November 2005, returned to Earth. Hayabusa was the first spacecraft designed to deliberately land on an asteroid and then take off again, and indeed was the first to ever d...

Leo's Iberia charter, due to take him back to Rome after a weeklong visit to Spain, was grounded by a technical problem Friday, prompting Spain's king to offer his private jet instead.

The painter broke social taboos by celebrating same-sex relationships in his art.

A judge rejected a request to pause a court-ordered deadline of Friday to remove references to President Trump from the building. The institution appealed, an effort that was also rebuffed Friday evening.

BBC speaks to students from war-torn Myanmar who say they were cheated after paying to study abroad.

Fifa says numerous empty seats were visible in the near-sell-out Group A match between South Korea and the Czech Republic because of fans remaining on concourses.

A new energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials. Communities from California to the Middle East currently rely on desalination plants to convert ocean water to fresh water. But, common desalination techniq...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he gave the company "less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all" when it first started, and it is now going public "with the largest IPO ever".

A tour boat joined the search for a dog that had floated three miles out to sea in a kayak. After two hours of searching, they spotted the inflatable boat on the horizon but couldn’t see if the pooch was still aboard. As tension mounted, they young men captured the moment on video when they […] The...