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Best Lego advent calendars 2021

Get in the spirit of the festive season with the best Lego advent calendars for Christmas 2021.

NASA's Artemis astronauts will ride to launchpad in sleek new electric vans

Stephen Colbert told the 'Star Trek' star that space isn't as fun as the franchise showed us.

Astronauts spot an ancient heart-shaped oasis in Egypt just in time for Valentine's Day

When NASA's most recent Mars lander trekked out to the Red Planet, it had historic company: two tiny cubesats, the first to leave the relative safety of Earth orbit.

The October Council edition of ESA Impact is online

If scientists want astronomy to thrive throughout the 21st century, we need a new approach: to view new observatories through a lens of public benefit.

Watch live: NASA moves Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building

If you're looking for a drone to get a taste of flying on Earth (or other worlds) this holiday season, you can get this 4DRC F10 Drone for a whopping 35% off at Amazon right now.

Lego space deals: Stellar deals on spaceships, space stations, and NASA kits

Out of this world Lego space deals for every budget and every age.

SpaceX is adding two more Crew Dragons to its fleet

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on May 1, 2021. Credit: NASA

SpaceX is about to double the size of its fleet of Crew Dragon spaceships. The company is debuting a new spacecraft for a NASA launch later this month, and is building a fourth human-rated capsule that should be ready for flight early next year, a SpaceX official said Wednesday.

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Live coverage: Japanese Epsilon rocket ready for second launch attempt

Live coverage of the countdown and launch Japan’s Epsilon rocket with nine small Japanese and Vietnamese technology demonstration satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.

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One Star Could Answer Many Unsolved Questions About Black Holes

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) likely resides at the center of the Milky Way, and in the centers of other galaxies like it. It’s never been seen though. It was discovered by watching a cluster of stars near the galactic center, called S stars.

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Meet William Shatner's real-life space crew for Blue Origin's launch

The original "Star Trek" captain, a Blue Origin vice-president, a co-founder of Planet Labs and a co-founder of a medical research platform will all rocket to space on a Blue Origin flight.

NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission 10 days from launch

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation last month inside the payload shroud of its Atlas 5 launcher. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Fueled up for a 12-year mission of exploration, NASA’s Lucy science probe is nearly ready for launch Oct. 16 from Florida’s Space Coast to begin a journey through the solar system to visit eight asteroids, a record number for a single mission.

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Astronomers Have a new way to Measure the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

Even the most supermassive of the supermassive black holes aren’t very large, making it extremely difficult to measure their sizes. However, astronomers have recently developed a new technique that can estimate the mass of a black hole based on the movement of hot gas around them – even when the black hole itself it smaller than a single pixel.

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SpaceX's Crew-3 is ready for a Halloween weekend launch

SpaceX's newest crewed mission to space is ready for launch!

NASA reassigns 2 astronauts from Boeing's Starliner to SpaceX's Crew Dragon

Two astronauts expected to fly on early missions of Boeing's crew capsule will instead ride to orbit with SpaceX, NASA announced today (Oct. 6).

Plutonian Mounts Aren’t Ice Volcanoes

Careful study of data from the New Horizons mission indicates that an iconic, caldera-looking feature isn’t an eruption site.

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What are star clusters?

Star clusters are large gravitationally bound groups of stars that are one of the best tools astronomers have to study stellar evolution.

Astronomers Might use Pulsars to First Detect Merging Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron stars – to observe the mergers of supermassive black holes.

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Get 20% off Crayola STEAM toys and kits during World Space Week

Crayola is offering 20% off on its range of STEAM kits right through World Space Week (Oct. 4-10).

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.


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