A European spacecraft has begun close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA four years ago in a planetary defense test. The European Space Agency…
The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale…
The Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program (Saudi Reef) reported that Saudi coffee production rose from 800 tons annually in 2020 to approximately…
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) launched the KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative’s large-scale coral facility, restoring and…
For the people of the remote Moroccan village of Timahdite, nestled in North Africa’s highest mountain range, heavy snowfall brings weeks, or months, of…
One of the largest planets ever detected orbits at an enormous distance around two stars with a combined mass up to 10 times greater than our sun, an extreme…
An experimental saliva test can diagnose SARS-CoV-2 infection in minutes, nearly as accurately as gold-standard PCR tests, UK researchers said, Reuters…
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday in his first space flight, a voyage he sees as a dry-run…
As part of the largest entertainment festival in the region, Nabd Al Riyadh Zone has opened its doors to celebrate the authenticity and history of Saudi Arabia…
A tiny galaxy orbiting at the outskirts of the Milky Way appears to have a giant black hole at its center, comparable to that of the much larger Milky Way…
As a former national team cyclist who'd fix her own bikes, and before that as a child helping out on her family's cattle farm, NASA trainee astronaut Christina…
The dress sword carried by Napoleon Bonaparte when he staged a coup in 1799 and five of his firearms sold at auction for nearly $2.9 million, US auctioneers…
Ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the US invasion in 2003 were put on display in Baghdad on Tuesday. Among the artifacts returned by…
A giant Christmas tree takes pride of place in Bethlehem's Manger Square, between the Church of the Nativity and a mosque adorned with lights cascading down…
The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday its official workweek will move to Monday to Friday, a major change that brings the nation that is home to major…
Hours after Jeddah concluded the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the city kickstarted the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival in the historic downtown area…
Art exhibitions, book fairs on the Tigris and Godot in Baghdad -- after decades of conflict and strife, the Iraqi capital is experiencing an artistic…
Alongside celebrities gracing the red carpet at film festivals in Egypt, the traditional powerhouse of regional cinema, young Arab women directors are making…
Egypt announced on Sunday the discovery of two adjacent tombs dating back to the Saite Period (also known as the Sawy Period) by a University of Barcelona…
A female turtle lumbers across the beach in Pakistan's bustling port city of Karachi late at night, looking for a place to lay her eggs. Waiting for her,…
British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, will on Monday receive his medal in London. Gurnah, 72, won the…
Russia on Wednesday will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the International Space Station in a move marking Moscow's return to the now booming space…
From butterfly kicks to power jabs, a group of children in rebel-held northern Syria are honing martial arts techniques under the instruction of an unlikely…
Bob Dole, who battled back from being severely wounded in World War II to become a five-term US senator and the Republican Party's 1996 presidential nominee,…
For decades, scientists have hotly debated the origin of the western honeybee. Now, new research led by York University discovered these popular honey…
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi will receive a shared Nobel prize at a ceremony Monday, but behind the celebrations is consternation at the brain-drain that…
A region in western Canada has notched up a record-high winter temperature, just months after the country sweltered under a historic global heat dome in the…
French Minister of Culture Dr. Roselyne Bachelot visited on Saturday the historic area of Jeddah, as part of her current visit to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Press…