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VIDEO: Rosetta comet-chasing spacecraft wakes up

First spacecraft to land in a comet wakes up from 10 years of hibernation.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 20, 2014 | 3:52 pm

NASA wants your name in its first asteroid mission, leaving in 2016

Selected names will be etched on a microchip aboard the spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in only two years.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2014 | 7:10 pm

Colossus tries to stay afloat with creditor protection

The company will pursue a sale process and restructuring through a debt-for-equity swap.

Ana Komnenic | January 15, 2014 | 12:28 am

Is space mining commercially viable?

A researcher from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics says there are likely 'few' ore-bearing asteroids.

Ana Komnenic | January 13, 2014 | 9:21 pm

About 1,000 shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars

Mars One, a Dutch non-profit mission to build the first human settlement on Mars, said only 24 will be sent.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 2, 2014 | 6:20 pm

South African labour: Unions at war

Numsa will openly recruit from NUM's membership, in direct violation of federation principles. Numsa tells opponents to 'go to hell.'

Ana Komnenic | December 18, 2013 | 6:38 pm

South Africa’s key gold industry faces moment of truth

Collapsing gold prices, ageing mines, labour strikes and higher operating costs have together weighed down on the sector in the world's sixth largest producer of the metal.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 18, 2013 | 4:27 pm

$78bn fall in gold assets leads record investor exit from commodities

Precious metals main reason behind record decline and outflows from commodity assets under management in 2013.

Frik Els | December 17, 2013 | 10:35 pm

Anglo American confirms turnaround plan, warns 2014 will continue to be tough

Cutifani said the firm has identified three "buckets" from which it plans to extract about $3.9 billion of extra earnings.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 12, 2013 | 3:00 pm

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