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A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.

The four Expedition 73 members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission prepared to come home, while also got the International Space Station ready for its next residents.

The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.

High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."

SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight.

New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's first stars, but did they help or hinder?

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle.

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier.

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded.

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of the Vulcan's surprisingly complicated love life

A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star

Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 31), and you can watch the action live.

Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31).