A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining.

The CIA, NSA and multiple other US intelligence agencies have been asked to examine a reported request from the UK government for Apple to implement a backdoor in their encryption.

Five years ago, BP's chief executive did something very unusual for the boss of an oil and gas company - he pledged to produce less oil and gas. 

Two space mining missions are blasting off this week, with one heading to the southern-most point ever visited on the moon's surface.

Oil and gas giant BP has again slashed its renewable energy investment and announced more funding for greater fossil fuel production.

Oil and gas giant BP has again slashed its renewable energy investment and announced more funding for fossil fuel production.

"The Seventh Carbon Budget Advice for the UK government" couldn't sound more tedious.

Apple says it is repairing a glitch with its speech-to-text feature on iPhones which interprets the word "racist" as "Trump" before autocorrecting itself.

Something has changed dramatically in your home in a way you won't have even noticed.

An MP has confronted social media bosses over extreme messages received by politicians after she was threatened with being hanged.

An asteroid that had a very small chance of hitting Earth is no longer a potential threat, according to scientists.

An MP has accused Meta of turning Facebook Messenger into "Jeffrey Epstein's private island" by enabling end-to-end encryption. 

Not one, not two, but seven planets are due to line up in the night skies later this week in a relatively rare planetary parade.

Go back a mere four billion years, and Mars could have been the perfect destination for a summer holiday.

More than 1,000 artists and musicians including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Sam Fender and Annie Lennox have recorded a silent album in protest at proposed changes to copyright law, which they say could lead to artists being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI).

An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors.

Personalised cancer treatment, matched to a patient via a simple blood test, is being hailed as "life-saving", following an initial study.

Hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.19bn) worth of digital money in what could be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft.

A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found.