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SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the ISS: Live updates

By Mike Wall, Josh Dinner last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station.

Human Spaceflight
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Best camera for astro now $300 cheaper: This Nikon bundle comes with plenty of extras

By Harry Bennett published

Deals 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!

Deals
A rocket seen shooting upward with a coastline in the background.

SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for NASA on milestone Crew Dragon flight (video)

By Brett Tingley published

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.

Human Spaceflight
A look inside the Large Hadron Collider full of different scientific instruments

New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

By William Barter published

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

Particle Physics
A glowing string of orange and yellow gas in the darkness of space, with a yellow end on the left showing a gas jet of a black hole

Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggests

By Keith Cooper published

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.

Black Holes
Two men and two women, all wearing white pressure suits and helmets, pose for a photo together inside a space station module

Astronaut savors the moment and shares a stunning aurora shot | On the International Space Station July 28-Aug. 1, 2025

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

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.

International Space Station
A photo of Earth from space shows its green landscape with a large brown shape in the middle where a drained lake sits

Big lake in Quebec suddenly disappears, satellite finds | Space photo of the day for August 1, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.

Earth
Moon halos are closely related to "sun dogs", a solar phenomenon where pillars of light appear on either side of the sun.

Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, James Webb Space Telescope suggests

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

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

James Webb Space Telescope
SpaceX conducts a static fire test with a Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on July 31, 2025.

SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th test flight (video, photos)

By Mike Wall published

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.

Launches & Spacecraft
An illustration of primordial black holes gethering matter to form the first generation of stars

Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the Big Bang help our universe's 1st stars form?

By Robert Lea published

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?

Black Holes
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