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Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 binoculars, now less than $100 at Amazon

Save 25% on the Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 this Black Friday, a variant of one of our top-rated binoculars.

Acclaimed 'Andor' costume designer Michael Wilkinson dishes on the look of Star Wars and more (exclusive)

An exclusive interview with Michael Wilkinson, the head costume designer of "Andor."

Save $100 on Lego's epic Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon for the ultimate gift this Black Friday

Lego's stunning Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon is rarely on sale and at one of the lowest prices for the year, $749.99, at Zavvi.

Sony A7R III is now $500 cheaper in this Black Friday deal

Save over 20% with this $500 off camera deal with the Sony A7R III over at Amazon with this Black Friday deal

Defying weather odds, SpaceX sends Eutelsat broadband platform into orbit

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires through cloud cover over Cape Canaveral to deliver the Eutelsat 10B satellite into orbit. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

Despite a bleak weather forecast, SpaceX took advantage of a break in cloud cover over Cape Canaveral Tuesday night to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with the Eutelsat 10B satellite, a high-throughput relay platform to beam in-flight WiFi signals and maritime data services across a coverage zone from the North Atlantic to the Middle East.

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Get $85 off Celestron's Trailseeker 8x42 ED binoculars

With bigger savings on the Extra-Low Dispersion (ED) Celestron TrailSeeker binoculars, why settle for less than this Black Friday deal?

Artemis 1 cubesat fails to fire engine as planned during moon flyby

NASA's LunaH-Map cubesat failed to perform a planned engine burn during its Nov. 21 moon flyby, likely because of a stuck valve in its propulsion system.

Lopsided star cluster may disprove Newton and Einstein, controversial new study claims

An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND — a controversial theory of gravity that disputes Newton and rejects the existence of dark matter.

Juno spacecraft snaps gorgeous photo of Jupiter's atmosphere, 2 big moons

A flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered a stunning image of the gas giant's cloud tops and moons Callisto and Io.

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The Orion spacecraft with European Service Module (left), Earth (middle) and the Moon (right) are captured in this ‘family portrait’ by Orion’s solar array camera during the spacecraft’s closet approach to the lunar surface.

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The Milky Way’s Stellar Halo Isn’t a Sphere After All

Our galaxy’s stellar halo is giving astronomers some new food for thought. It turns out everyone thought the halo was spherical. But, it’s not. That’s news to everyone who said it was spherical. According to a new measurement done by a team at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, it has a tilted, oblong football shape. This all tells astronomers an interesting tale about our galaxy’s ancient history.

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Artemis 1's tiny Japanese probe abandons moon landing try

A tiny cubesat moon lander riding with Artemis 1 could not establish contact in time to reach its destination, but it may be able to do some other deep-space work.

Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft sees Earth setting behind moon (video)

The Orion spacecraft's lunar flyby Monday (Nov. 21) delivered a celestial Thanksgiving treat a few days early, as its cameras caught the distant Earth setting behind our moon.

NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat reaches final orbit around the moon

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has settled into its final lunar orbit, shifting into the operational phase of its pioneering moon mission.

­A Celebration of Jay Pasachoff (1943-2022)

Jay M. Pasachoff, Chair of the Astronomy Department, Director of the Hopkins Observatory, and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning, November 20th.

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Volcanoes are the worst. They’ve caused extinctions on Earth, and probably killed Venus

Is there anything good about volcanoes? They can be violent, dangerous, and unpredictable. For modern humans, volcanoes are mostly an inconvenience, sometimes an intriguing visual display, and occasionally deadly.

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Mars' water may have come from ancient asteroid impacts

Isotopic evidence points to carbonaceous chondrite asteroids bringing enough water to Mars that it could have formed a global ocean some 1,000 feet deep.

Huge Artemis 1 moon rocket blew the doors off its launch tower's elevators (video)

NASA is assessing the damage Artemis 1 left behind after the huge Space Launch System rocket lifted off on Nov. 16, but officials emphasize everything is manageable for future missions.

How to watch Our Universe: Netflix & the BBC's new interstellar documentary series

Our Universe takes nature documentaries one step further into the cosmos to explore how we got to this very moment in existence.

How the search for a downed plane led to a fallen space shuttle and vice versa

In the wake of the space shuttle Challenger tragedy, a salvage effort was organized to find the spacecraft. The search also led to an aircraft being found. Now it has happened again, only in reverse.


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