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Best headlamps 2022: best lights for stargazing and general lowlight scenes

A guide to the best headlamps that keep your hands free and won't ruin your night vision when stargazing or taking astrophotographs.

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Best tripods: For astrophotography, landscape, and more

Here's our round-up of the best tripods on the market, and we think every astrophotographer should have one.

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Damage control for the Perseids: Dark sky opportunities

Because of the brightness of the moon, the best times to see the Perseid meteor shower this year will be during the predawn hours several mornings before the night of full moon.

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Astronomers catch a super-energetic collision of dead stars

A distant neutron-star merger unleashed one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) ever seen.

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SpaceX team headed to Australia to investigate Dragon space junk crash

Officials with SpaceX are going to Australia to examine a crash site possibly associated with space debris generated from the Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft.

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The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years. Here's what we've learned.

Curiosity landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, with one main goal: to determine whether the planet was once habitable. In 10 years, it has answered that question and many others.

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SpaceX launches South Korea's 1st-ever moon mission, lands rocket at sea

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), also known as Danuri, lifted off today (Aug. 4) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off South Korea's first-ever deep-space mission.

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China launches mysterious reusable 'test spacecraft' to Earth orbit

For the second time in two years, China has launched a classified reusable vehicle — thought to be a robotic space plane — on a mystery mission to Earth orbit.

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'Woohoo! We're not going to die!' Blue Origin space tourists celebrate successful mission

Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle carried six people on a roughly 10-minute flight today (Aug. 4) — a brief mission, but long enough to change the passengers' lives forever.

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NASA moon contractor Masten Space Systems files for bankruptcy: reports

It's unclear at the moment how Masten's Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission for NASA will make its delivery to the moon.

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SpaceX addressing Falcon 9 rocket damage ahead of next NASA astronaut launch

SpaceX is making some changes following transport damage to a Falcon 9 rocket, with Crew-5 commander Nicole Mann telling reporters she's confident the system will fly safely.

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China launches carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite (video)

China launched a carbon and ecosystem monitoring satellite and two smaller payloads with the country's 28th launch of 2022 late on Wednesday (Aug. 3).

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Perseid meteor shower 2022 webcast: How to watch the 'shooting stars' live online

The annual Perseid meteor shower is approaching its peak, and you can enjoy the event live online.

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'The Orville' Season 3 penultimate episode is a bombardment on the senses

If epic space battle set pieces are you thing, like they are ours, then you're going to love 'The Orville' season 3, episode 9: 'Domino.'

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How 'Lightyear' director Angus MacLane used Lego to inspire the movie's spaceships (exclusive clip)

This exclusive behind-the-scenes clip showcases how the iconic bricks played an instrumental role in the production and development of "Lightyear."

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These Lego Lightyear movie sets will let you build to infinity and beyond!

A spaceship, a Zyclops and a Zurg are all available now on Lego.com.

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Artemis 1 moon mission readies for crucial test for future crewed flights

NASA plans to launch its debut Artemis moon mission no earlier than Aug. 29 on a rigorous certification test, to see if the system can safely accept humans on future lunar missions.

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Blue Origin launches 6 people on company's 6th space tourism mission

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle carried six people to the final frontier this morning (Aug. 4), including a few who notched spaceflight firsts.

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Surprise! Asteroid wider than 2 football fields barrels past Earth

NASA astronomers discovered that a large asteroid would zoom past Earth on Aug. 4, missing our planet by millions of miles.

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Save $70 on the powerful Celestron AstroMaster 114 EQ telescope

The powerful Newtonian reflector telescope is 22% off on Amazon and is a great choice for those without much experience.

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Celebrate 10 years of NASA's Curiosity rover with these incredible images (gallery)

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years, taking incredible photos as it goes. We take a look at some of its best images here.

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