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This special edition Celestron telescope is just $51.74 in the Cyber Monday sales

The child-friendly model from Celestron is one of the cheapest telescopes available on Cyber Monday — perfect for budding astronomers.

Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces

Strange, newly theorized "eggshell planets" may possess super-thin outer layers with ultra-smooth surfaces unlike those seen on any world to date, a new study reports.

Elusive neutrino candidates detected in breakthrough physics experiment

For the first time ever, researchers have detected neutrino candidates produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerland.

Galileo satellites given green light for launch

Europe’s next pair of Galileo satellites have been given a green light for launch. Last Friday’s Launch Readiness Review confirmed that the satellites, the supporting ground installations, and the early operations facilities and teams are ready for lift-off on the early hours of Thursday morning, European time.

Galileo: en route to full operational capability

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Soon another pair of Galileo satellites will be launched on top of a Soyuz from Europe spaceport in French Guiana. These satellites are the first of the so-called 'Batch 3', comprising of 12 additional first-generation Galileo satellites commissioned in 2017 to bring the constellation to full operational capability. They will be used to further expand the constellation up to 38 satellites and act as backups and spares for satellites that reach their end-of-life.

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Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal: HP’s VR-ready Omen laptop is now $200 cheaper

Boasting an NVIDIA RTX 3070 graphics card, this discounted Omen laptop should be able to handle all your VR needs.

NASA Launches DART, to Learn how to Defend the Earth From a Future Asteroid Impact

In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, Nov. 24th, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base (SFB) in California. This spacecraft is the world’s first full-scale mission to demonstrate technologies that could someday be used to defend our planet from Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) that could potentially collide with Earth.

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Star Trek fans should beam up this Paramount Plus Cyber Monday deal before it warps away

ViacomCBS's sci-fi centric streaming service is delivering up a stellar Cyber Monday deal for new subscribers

This rechargeable National Geographic Power Rocket for kids is 13% off for Cyber Monday

You can save 13% on this rechargeable National Geographic Power Rocket, which uses a rotors for both launch and landing, this Cyber Monday.

NASA gives green light to fuel James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope inside a clean room at the Guiana Space Center. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now

NASA engineers have cleared teams at the Guiana Space Center in South America to begin loading 63 gallons of fuel and oxidizer into the James Webb Space Telescope, after extra testing showed the observatory suffered no damage during a processing incident in the clean room earlier this month.

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Save 37% on this Amazon Fire TV Stick in Baby Yoda green for Cyber Monday

You can save 37% on a Baby Yoda-themed Amazon Fire TV Stick for your streaming needs, or save 40% on a plan Fire TV Stick 4K.

Save up to 40% in this Cyber Monday deal on the BBC Doctor Who HiFive Inventor Coding Kit

Searching for code learning Cyber Monday deals? Consider the BBC Doctor Who HiFive Inventor Coding Kit.

Astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter and Michael Strahan named to spaceflight

File photo of a previous Blue Origin New Shepard launch. Credit: Blue Origin

The third piloted flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spacecraft will launch December 9 with a crew of six, including a network morning anchor and the eldest daughter of Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the company announced Nov. 23.

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These STEM kits are up to 60% off for Cyber Monday, including an amazing planetarium kit

These STEM kits are great Cyber Monday deals for your little scientists who want to learn about the solar system, volcanos, or the microscopic world.

Kate Mulgrew spills the beans on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' and bringing Captain Janeway back to TV

Here's what Kate Mulgrew's Janeway has to say on "Star Trek: Prodigy" and if the USS Protostar is an experimental ship designed to travel to the Delta Quadrant.

Will the spice flow? How does new 'Dune' hold up to 1984's film and Frank Herbert's classic novel?

Here's Denis Villeneuve's new "Dune" adaptation compared to David Lynch's ill-fated 1984 film and Frank Herbert's 1965 novel.

'Rick and Morty' pays tribute to Dune, Star Wars and Logan's Run in crazy new comics for 2022 (exclusive)

Oni Press will publish three new "Rick and Morty" comics next year in honor of "Dune," "Star Wars" and "Logan's Run."

AI discovers over 300 unknown exoplanets in Kepler telescope data

A new artificial-intelligence algorithm has discovered more than 300 previously unknown exoplanets in data gathered by the now defunct exoplanet-hunting telescope Kepler.

Alien organisms could hitch a ride on our spacecraft and contaminate Earth, scientists warn

Scientists warn that increased space exploration raises the risk that alien organisms will invade Earth and that Earth organisms will invade other planets.

NASA spacecraft at the moon snaps photo of Saturn from lunar orbit

Just because a spacecraft is sent to study the moon doesn't mean it can't do a little extra skywatching now and then.


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