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China is celebrating the successful launch and return of a reusable spacecraft which reportedly orbited Earth for two days before safely returning to the ground.

China's experimental reusable spacecraft has successfully landed back on Earth, according to state media.

Facebook has said it will block a Frenchman suffering with a rare and incurable disease from livestreaming his death on the platform.

The tests used to find out if someone is COVID positive could be finding traces of the virus that are no longer active, some scientists are saying.

Climate change caused the rise and fall of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, according to a new mathematical model of monsoon patterns.

The discovery of at least 200 mammoth skeletons near Mexico City may help explain why the species became extinct, archaeologists have said.

Construction on HS2, the controversial high-speed railway, will get under way today, with the government calling it a "shovels in the ground" moment.

The mayor of London has called on the government to publish data on the effectiveness of its new contact tracing app, saying he is "frustrated" by the "lack of information".

Hackers who hijacked the personal Twitter account of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have told Sky News they did so after compromising his personal website.

Facebook says it will stop accepting political advertisements in the week before the US election, as its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg warned of "an increased risk of civil unrest across the country".

Scientists have discovered rust on the moon and say oxygen from Earth is partially responsible.

Contact-tracing apps reduce transmissions and deaths even at very low levels of adoption, according to a new study from the University of Oxford and Google.

Scientists have test-fired a new rocket booster intended to fly American astronauts back to the moon in 2024.

A cheap and widely available steroid has been found to reduce mortality in the sickest COVID-19 patients.

Scientists have detected the most massive source of gravitational waves which has ever been recorded, and aren't completely sure what caused it.

A robot dog is being trialled as a way of taking patients' vital signs to minimise the risks posed to health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

A fake left-wing news organisation operated by the Russian agency accused of interfering in the US election in 2016 has been uncovered and banned by Facebook.

Uber is to start requiring some passengers to provide a selfie to prove they are wearing a face mask before boarding.

The UK has fallen 13 places down the global broadband speed rankings and is now among the slowest in western Europe, according to new figures.

Men with larger waists or concentrations of fat around the belly are more likely to die of prostate cancer, new research has suggested.

Samsung has unveiled its third attempt at a foldable phone today, which is also its first 5G-compatible foldable device.

Apple's stock market surge has hit a fresh milestone as its value overtook that of the entire FTSE 100 index of UK-listed companies.

Rock star Tom DeLonge has spoken to Sky News about his work on UFOs, saying he would not have put music on the backburner to "chase monsters and ghosts" and that research into the subject could "change the world".

Amazon's drone delivery programme - which the company claimed would start "within months" more than a year ago - has won regulatory approval for trial flights in the US.

An electronic skin developed by scientists can react to pain just like real skin, in a potential breakthrough for prosthetics and high-tech alternatives to skin grafts.

Zoom has reported a more than thirty-fold rise in quarterly profits and lifted its outlook as it set its sights on a "future of working anywhere".

Facebook is preparing to block news content in Australia in response to new regulations which would force social media platforms to pay publishers for their articles.

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a rate which matches the worst-case scenario for sea level rises, according to a new study.

Type 2 diabetics are to be encouraged to try a soup and shakes weight-loss plan as the health service steps up efforts to tackle the condition.

We should expect more animal-to-human disease outbreaks to emerge in future, a leading scientist has warned.

India and Russia have both been awarded gold at the Chess Olympiad after a major internet outage left two Indian players unable to compete in the finals.

A startup co-founded by Elon Musk has implanted new wireless technology into the brains of pigs with the aim of helping people with severe neurological conditions.

A Tesla driver crashed into a police car after allegedly watching a film while his vehicle was on autopilot.

Amazon is launching a wearable wellness band and app it claims can read someone's emotions using their voice.

A third of mobile phone customers are still being charged the full price of their contract - even after paying off the cost of their handset, Which? has warned.

LG has announced a new battery-powered face mask, which the tech giant describes as a "wearable air purifier".