Space

HTV-9’s de-orbit marks the end of 11 years of JAXA’s HTV Cargo spacecraft missions.

Japan’s “white stork” has taken flight from the International Space Station for the last time.

The United Arab Emirates’ first-ever interplanetary spacecraft, Hope, has nailed its initial post-launch course correction, pointing the mission toward Mars for its February arrival.

The most widely accepted cosmological view states that the first galaxies formed about 380–400 million years after the Big Bang. These were made up of young, hot stars that lived fast and died young, causing the galaxies themselves to be turbulent. At least, that was the theory until a European […]

Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a full moon—it might be fun to think about, but this scene is the prelude to a disaster when the radiation devastates life as we know it. Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at […]

SpaceX has secured a $1.9 billion funding round after achieving a $46-billion valuation.