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Amazon’s Baby Yoda Echo Dot Smart Speaker is 32% off for Cyber Monday!
Amazon's 4th generation Echo Dot Smart Speaker got a "Star Wars" style upgrade with a new Amazon-exclusive stand that looks like Grogu (or "Baby Yoda) from "The Mandalorian."
Explore the solar system with this STEM kit for 65% off this Cyber Monday!
Explore the solar system with the Playz Solar System for Kids Exploration kit, now on sale for Cyber Monday!
Get the Mandalorian Darksaber for almost 50% off with this Cyber Monday deal!
Have you dreamed of wielding the Darksaber, the ancient black-bladed lightsaber from The Mandalorian on Disney Plus?
This Boeing Starliner building set from Cobi is 19% off with this Cyber Monday deal
Save $5.19 with this Cyber Monday deal.
Light up your home with the brilliant Blisslights Sky Lite for 31% off this Cyber Monday
Blisslights Sky Lite 2.0 is on sale for $22 off so your house can transform into a cosmic wonderland.
Nat Geo's crystal science kit is 30% off with this Cyber Monday deal
Is there someone in your life who loves all things science, color and crystals?
Re: NGC 1647 Visible with the Unaided Eye
Hi Alan, Here's my observation of NGC 1647 with the unaided eye. We do live in a semi-arid area, the southern Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, but my backyard is […]
It’s Time to Stop Doing Anti-Satellite Tests
Earlier this month, the Russian military conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test, launching a PL19 Nudol interceptor missile at a now-defunct Soviet-era intelligence satellite, KOSMOS 1408. The impact obliterated the spacecraft, creating a debris field consisting of approximately 1500 pieces of trackable debris, and potentially hundreds of thousands of pieces that are too small to monitor with ground-based radar. In the aftermath of the test, the debris field crossed the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) repeatedly, causing the crew to take emergency precautions and shelter in their descent capsules, ready for a quick return to Earth in the event that the station was hit.
Stars Getting Kicked out of the Milky Way can Help us map its Dark Matter Halo
Dark matter is notoriously difficult to study. It’s essentially invisible to astronomers since it can’t be seen directly. So astronomers rely on effects such as the gravitational lensing of light to map its presence in the universe. That method works well for other galaxies, but not so well for our own. To map dark matter in the Milky Way, we rely mostly on the motions of stars in our galaxy. Since dark matter attracts regular matter gravitationally, the method works well for areas of the galaxy where there are stars. Unfortunately, most of the stars lie along the galactic plane, making it difficult to map dark matter above and below that plane. But a recent study proposes a way to map more of our galaxy’s dark matter using runaway stars.
Lego Star Wars: The Clone Wars Tank is 20% off in this deal
The Lego Star Wars: Clone Wars Armored Assault Tank is on sale right now at Amazon for $31.99 for Cyber Monday, saving you 20%.
Early Cyber Monday Star Wars deal saves $33 on lightsabers today
Great for kids and costumes, you can save around 17% with these early Cyber Monday Star Wars lightsaber deals
In 'Star Trek: Discovery' season 4, episode 2, the Federation learns the gravity of the situation
The second episode of "Star Trek: Discovery' season 4 brings the gravity of an anomaly to bear.
Astronaut Wang Yaping snaps Earth photos and more from Chinese space station
The first woman aboard China’s new space station has snapped some glorious shots of our homeworld during a six-month mission to space.
Stargazer in Italy spots NASA's DART asteroid impact probe in night sky after launch
An Italian telescope captured NASA's asteroid-smasher DART shortly after its launch on Tuesday (Nov. 23).
Curious Kids: What is the coldest planet in the solar system?
The heat inside planets is left over from when they were formed.
Space rock alert: Should you worry about an asteroid impact?
NASA is testing one technique it might use should a large asteroid threaten to collide with Earth. But just how high are the odds of such a dangerous space rock after all? You don't need to panic.
The savings flow in this Black Friday deal for new film version Dune board game
Gale Force Nine's Dune board game gets a Hollywood makeover and update in this spicy Black Friday deal.
A Machine-Learning Algorithm Just Found 301 Additional Planets in Kepler Data
Looking to the future, astronomers are excited to see how machine learning – aka. deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) – will enhance surveys. One field that is already benefitting in the search for extrasolar planets, where researchers rely on machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between faint signals and background noise. As this field continues to transition from discovery to characterization, the role of machine intelligence is likely to become even more critical.
Score up to 25% off on this awesome pair of Nerf blasters for Black Friday
Black Friday Nerf deals at Target include a Fortnite Heavy SR and Dinosquad Rex-Rampage blasters
Strong this Black Friday deal is: Save $20 on Lego's Star Wars Attack of the Clones Yoda right now
You can save $20 on Lego's Star Wars Attack of the Clones Yoda, complete with lightsaber, at Amazon for Black Friday.