SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts for NASA's Crew-13 mission docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday after a nearly eight-hour journey from launch to the orbiting laboratory.

China's commercial rocket firm CAS Space unveiled a partnership with the Guangzhou Laboratory on Monday to jointly develop space pharmaceutical payloads, with plans to conduct suborbital flight verification using a reusable spacecraft in 2027.

Europe endured a summer of searing heat in 2026, with more than half the continent exposed to dangerous temperatures that posed a serious risk to human health, a new study shows.

China’s quantitative investing sector has added 18 new members to the ranks of funds managing more than 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in assets this year, underlining the industry’s ability to generate competitive returns despite a tight regulatory environment. The firms were among 159 Chinese hedge funds overseeing more than 10 billion yuan each, according to financial news agency Cailian Press. Their growth has been fuelled by technology-driven momentum in the world’s second-largest stock...

The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.

A catheter carrying the drug may not have delivered the doses to Ms. Pike’s bloodstream, experts said. The drug itself may have been degraded.