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You can get 3 months of Discovery+ at $0.99 a month for Cyber Monday, but act fast
Right now, you can get Discovery+ for just $0.99 for the first three months, saving you $12 off the usual $4.99 per... Read more » - The Lego Star Wars: The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle is marked down 20% for Cyber Monday at just $79.99, a discount of... Read more »
- This deal will fly away fast. Lego's stunning Star Wars UCS Millennium Falcon is rarely on sale and at one of the... Read more »
- Astronomers are watching with Hawai'i residents as the largest volcano on Earth erupts for the first time in decades.... Read more »
- Our Cyber Monday space deals coverage is underway with the freshest deals on telescopes, star projectors, drones, Lego and more.... Read more »
Nature’s Ultra-Rare Isotopes Can’t Hide from this New Particle AcceleratorA new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is producing long-awaited results. It’s called the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, and it... Read more »
- China just unveiled the crew that will launch on its Shenzhou 15 mission on Tuesday (Nov. 29) and spend the next six... Read more »
- Save $45 on the Celestron SkyMaster 25x70, which offers top quality optics for less than the competition.... Read more »
- The Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark IV is $225 off this Cyber Monday and it comes with a 14-42mm II R lens.... Read more »
- Satellites watched as Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on Earth, erupted on Sunday (Nov. 27) after 38 years of quiet.... Read more »
- The gender imbalance that has existed for years in astronomy research and publishing worsened when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down labs and... Read more »
- OK, Artemis. Now You’re Just Showing Off. A Stunning View of the Moon Eclipsing Earth From the Orion SpacecraftHave you ever seen a lunar eclipse of the Earth from the far side of the Moon? Now we have. On Monday... Read more »
Orion Approaches Moon for Outbound Powered Flyby
A portion of the far side of the Moon looms large just beyond the Orion spacecraft in this image taken Nov. 21,... Read more »
Non-detection of key signal allows astronomers to determine what the first galaxies were -- and weren't -- likeResearchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies... Read more »- Gaze Slack-jawed at the Haunting Beauty of Galaxy NGC 1566, Captured by JWST, Processed by Judy SchmidtHere’s an absolutely stunning new view from the James Webb Space Telescope of a dusty spiral galaxy, NGC 1566. Amateur (but expert!)... Read more »
- Astrophysicists hunt for second-closest supermassive black holeAs massive as the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the behemoth is hosted by a dwarf galaxy less... Read more »
Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii erupts!Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the 1st time in 38 years. Lava appeared to be confined to the caldera, but... Read more »Ask Astro: Can an observer ever see something fall into a black hole?
The short answer is no. And that's because some weird things happen when objects approach the speed of light.... Read more »- We know going back to the Moon is expensive. Here’s how we could use metals extracted from Moon dirt to save millions... Read more »
Majestic Messier 45: take a peak at the Pleiades!
The Pleiades open cluster, or Messier 45, in Taurus is as good as it gets for night-sky eye candy.... Read more »
- Sun activity: Auroras!Sun activity November 28:. Observers from Alaska to Europe reported auroras, due to a glancing blow from a CME and high-speed solar... Read more »
Locked and loaded
With liftoff now scheduled for 13 December, Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite has been fuelled – a critical and... Read more »
- NASA sets busy crew schedule for ISS in 2023We'll have a busy crew schedule for ISS in the coming year. NASA has scheduled 3 commercial crew flights to the International... Read more »
- What’s Next for China’s Lunar Exploration Plans?China is starting to become a force in space exploration. Its main focal point of lunar exploration has started bearing fruit, with... Read more »
- Astronomers Spotted a Tiny Asteroid A Few Hours Before it Impacted the Earth, and Predicted Exactly Where and When it Would CrashHumanity is getting better a planetary defense. At least from external threats from outer space. As long as they’re just dumb rocks... Read more »
- Many Clouds on Mars are Driven by Dust, not WaterOne of the benefits of having a cluster of satellites orbiting another planet is that scientists can then analyze that planet’s weather.... Read more »
- Based on the JWST Controversy, NASA is re-Evaluating the way it Names SpacecraftIn a surprise twist, NASA has suggested it will reexamine its naming policies, due to the controversy surrounding the JWST. The post... Read more »
- Atlas of Disaster shows 90% of US counties in last decadeA new report shares an Atlas of Disaster, showing that over the last decade 90% of counties in the United States suffered... Read more »
- Moon near Saturn November 28 and 29Find the crescent moon near Saturn on the evenings of November 28 and 29, 2022. Saturn can lead you to the arrowhead... Read more »
- Asteroid Explodes Over Canada, Artemis I Updates, Very Large Telescope ImprovementsUpdates on Artemis I. NASA predicted an asteroid striking Canada. James Webb’s view of Titan. New adaptive optics for the Very Large... Read more »
- Air-Breathing ion Engines can Continuously Boost Spacecraft Anywhere There’s an AtmosphereStaying in orbit can be challenging, at least for lower orbits that are more affected by Earth’s atmosphere. But, such orbits also... Read more »
- SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA is on its way to the International Space Station.... Read more »
- Subaru Telescope can now Analyze 2,400 Galaxies SimultaneouslyFirst light is an exciting time for astronomers and engineers who help bring new telescopes up to speed. One of the most... Read more »
- Webb telescope 1st close look at exoplanet atmosphereFor the 1st time, the Webb telescope has analyzed the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. It probed the atmosphere of Saturn-sized WASP-39b... Read more »
- Moon near Teapot – toward Milky Way center – tonightOn the evenings of November 25 and 26, 2022, you can see the very young waxing crescent moon near the Teapot of... Read more »
- NASA will host a news conference at 5 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 28, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to... Read more »
- The annual Thanksgiving event was held Nov. 24, 2022.... Read more »
- The Moon moves across the sky and the planets show off their splendor from November 25 to December 2.... Read more »
- VideoSeeing things that aren’t there? It’s called pareidoliaSeeing things like a dragon in a patch of clouds or a face on the moon is called pareidolia. Use these photos... Read more »
- Gegenschein is the glow of interplanetary dustProject Nightflight's Erwin Matys and Karoline Mrazek explain what the gegenschein is and how you can see this elusive stargazing target. The... Read more »
This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 3Mars is closest to Earth this week, closer and brighter than we'll see it again until 2033. By late evening it's high... Read more »- This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 3Mars is closest to Earth this week, closer and brighter than we'll see it again until 2033. By late evening it's high... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 3Mars is closest to Earth this week, closer and brighter than we'll see it again until 2033. By late evening it's high... Read more »
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 25 – December 3Mars is closest to Earth this week, closer and brighter than we'll see it again until 2033. By late evening it's high... Read more »
- The province of Zaragoza, in northeast Spain, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.... Read more »
- 23 Member and Associate States of the Agency pledged a total 117.6 million euros to ESA’s ScaleUp programme at ESA’s Ministerial Council... Read more »
- Artemis 1 is on its way back to Earth, successfully completing its maiden flight.... Read more »
- Are 2 snowflakes ever the same?Many billions of snowflakes drift down to Earth's surface in the winter. Some are the lacy or star-type snowflakes. Others are what... Read more »
- Astronomers observe intra-group light -- the elusive glow between distant galaxiesPioneering a new technique, researchers have peered into the extremely faint light that exists between galaxies to describe the history and state... Read more »
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