Anousheh Ansari is the chief executive of XPrize, a California-based nonprofit that organizes multi-million-dollar competitions to support scientific innovation and benefit humanity.

At the 89th Presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday, Anousheh Ansari accepted an Oscar for "The Salesman," Best Foreign Language Film, on behalf of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. Farhadi ...

Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, who helped fund a $10 million prize for private spaceflight, has been named the CEO of the XPRIZE foundation.

North Texas technology visionary Anousheh Ansari is making headlines again. Her company, Richardson-based Prodea Systems, announced Wednesday that it is acquiring Silicon Valley-based Arrayent Inc ...

North Texas technology visionary, Anousheh Ansari, is making headlines again. Her company, Richardson-based Prodea Systems, announced today that it is acquiring Silicon Valley-based Arrayent Inc ...

Anousheh Ansari, the first civilian woman in space, posed with audience members when she gave a talk at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York Oct. 5.(Image credit: The National Museum of ...

Anousheh Ansari is no stranger to high-flying challenges. In 2006, the Iranian-born computer engineer and entrepreneur became the first female space tourist by embarking on an 11-day private ...

When Anousheh Ansari was a little girl in Tehran, she used to sleep on her family's balcony, and look up at the stars, twinkling over Mt. Damavand. Her family was having tough times: her parent's ...

Xprize CEO and Prodea founder Anousheh Ansari dreamed of being an astronaut as a child growing up in Iran, but, understandably, most people around her were skeptical about her ambitions. Yet in ...

Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American who made fortune in phone technology, to become world's first civilian female in space Monday.

In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American billionaire, became the first private female space explorer when she paid $20 million to journey to the International Space Station for 10 days.

In an interview with SPACE.com Ansari discusses the hardest part of her training, the most anticipated part of her trip, and why she takes offense to the term "space tourist." ...