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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.

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

SpaceX launched the Crew-11 on Aug. 1, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on the record-breaking sixth flight of its Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

The Nikon Z8 was rated as our best overall camera for astrophotography, and is $600 off on Amazon, perfect for capturing the Lyrid meteor shower!

GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephants in western Namibia.

SpaceX just launched the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA — along with an interesting bacterial experiment.

Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson just extended her American duration record on the International Space Station. She also served as coach to the three rookie astronauts who flew with her.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will arrive at the International Space Station around 3 a.m. EDT on Saturday (Aug. 2), and you can watch the action live.

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.

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