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Black Friday drone deals: The best discounts from DJI, Skydio and more

We’re starting to see some Black Friday drone deals arrive – here we’ve rounded up the best discounts currently available.

Walmart's Lego City space deals are blasting off, with 20% off this Black Friday

Start your own space program with these Lego City Black Friday deals at Walmart.

Early Black Friday deal: Save 43% on these stargazing binoculars from Celestron

There's over $57 off these excellent sky-watching binoculars at Amazon right now.

You can Watch Ingenuity’s Flight on Mars, Captured by Perseverance

New video beamed back to Earth from the Perseverance Rover shows an incredibly detailed view of the Ingenuity helicopter’s flight back in September. The video – taken from about 300 meters (328 yards) away — shows Ingenuity’s takeoff and landing with such detail, that even a little plume of dust is visible during the helicopter’s ascent.

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Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday deal: $50 voucher with purchase at either Amazon or Newegg

Get a $50 voucher back with this Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday deal - perfect for the upcoming sales.

Can This Near-Earth Asteroid Help Us Understand the First Interstellar Visitor?

Astronomers have observed an object like ‘Oumuamua — but unlike the first known interstellar visitor, this one is in the solar system.

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Early Black Friday deal: Save $32 on this Lego Millennium Falcon set at Walmart

It's an out-of-this-world early Black Friday Lego Millennium Falcon deal on this 1351-piece Star Wars Lego set.

Black Friday sale: Read a free issue of All About Space magazine, plus save 50% on a subscription

All About Space magazine is created by space experts and features the latest developments in space science, exploration and more.

Weird quantum effect that can turn matter invisible finally demonstrated

The effect, called Pauli blocking, has been predicted for 30 years. Scientists just proved it for the first time.

Scientists figure out what happens to Earth's disappearing crust

Earth's outer shell is made of rocky rafts that dive beneath each other. The diving plates weaken, but do not break, according to a new study.

Asteroid Didymos: NASA's galactic target practice for DART

In NASA's galactic game of pinball, Didymos is the jackpot.

Just how many threatening asteroids are there? It's complicated.

So you've heard that an asteroid could slam into Earth wreaking all sorts of havoc, but just how many space rocks out there threaten our planet?

Carl Sagan: Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot & famous quotes

Carl Sagan was a scientist and educator best known for his TV series Cosmos, the Pale Blue Dot image of Earth and quotes about life and Earth.

We’re Constantly Battling Invasive Species Here on Earth. What Does That Teach us About Infecting Other Worlds With Earth Life?

When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins returned from the Moon in the summer of 1969, they spent three weeks isolated in quarantine to make sure that they hadn’t brought back any microbial lifeforms from the Moon, which could prove harmful to Earth life. Later, once the Moon had been unequivocally proved to be a dead world, future Apollo missions were allowed to skip quarantine. Elsewhere in the solar system, however, NASA still has to take planetary biosecurity seriously, because life could be out there. If we bring it back to Earth, it could be a danger to us and our ecosystems. Conversely, microbial Earth life could invade a fragile alien ecosystem, destroying a newly discovered lifeform before we have the chance to study it. Imagine discovering life on Mars, only to realize that it was life we had brought there with us.

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New trailer for 'Don't Look Up' has us excited about Netflix's comet-impact dark comedy

The first teaser trailer for "Don't Look Up" has Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as astronomers hoping to warn Earth of a comet impact.

NASA's DART mission to smack an asteroid launches this week. Here's how to watch online.

There are live briefings, virtual launch opportunities and even a planetary defense campaign.

NASA's DART mission will move an asteroid and change our relationship with the solar system

For billions of years, chaos and the laws of physics have governed our solar system; next year, humans will take the reins and purposefully, in a calculated strike, adjust the orbit of an asteroid.

Astronomers discover enormous 'barrier' separating the center of the Milky Way from the cosmic ray sea

Scientists studying cosmic rays near the galaxy's center discovered a strange 'barrier' keeping the fast-moving rays from entering the Milky Way's middle.

Cygnus cargo freighter ends mission at International Space Station

In this view from a camera on the space station’s robotic arm, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo ship departs after a three-month stay at the complex. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship departed the International Space Station Saturday after a three-month stay, heading off on the final phase of its mission to deploy a U.S. military tech demo payload and re-enter the atmosphere to dispose of 7,500 pounds of trash.

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Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship departs space station to conduct experiment in orbit

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-16 cargo ship left the International Space Station today (Nov. 20) to carry out a new mission in orbit.


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