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Amazon Spring Sale deals for stargazing 2026: Huge savings on telescopes, binoculars and cameras

Don't miss out on hundreds of dollars off the best skywatching optics and cameras in this week's Amazon Spring Sale.

Watch Rocket Lab launch Europe's 1st 2 'Celeste' navigation satellites early March 25

Rocket Lab will launch the first two satellites for Europe's Celeste navigation constellation early Wednesday morning (March 25), and you can watch the action live.

NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in

NASA is honing its focus on future Artemis missions to land astronauts on the moon, removing the Gateway space station from its plans and prioritizing bases on the lunar surface.

A car-sized asteroid is heading toward Earth for a flyby later tonight: Here's what you need to know

The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

Brown Dwarfs Dance Unexpected Tango

Two brown dwarfs are whipping around each other in a tight tango — an unexpected dance for objects that are not-quite-stars and not-quite-planets.

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NASA's '1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft' will send Skyfall helicopters to Mars in 2028

NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters to Mars.

We Are Slowing Down the Planet

This is a cool fact to impress your friends. The length of a day on Earth changes constantly, nudged by the Moon's gravitational pull, shifting winds in the atmosphere, and slow churning movements deep within the planet. It always has. Day length is, in a sense, a living measurement and one that ebbs and flows with the rhythms of a restless, dynamic world. But something new is happening.

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Future Artemis missions could use fiber-optic cables to monitor moonquakes

Fiber-optic cables on the moon could detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to study lunar activity and support future Artemis missions.

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Hubble revisits the Crab Nebula after 25 years | Space photo of the day for March 24, 2026

NASA has released new Hubble telescope images of the Crab Nebula taken 25 years after the iconic observatory first gazed at the colorful cosmic crustacean.

Arriving safely on Venus and Titan: Different atmospheres affect heat shields differently, study shows

Heat shields keep incoming spacecraft from burning up in planetary atmospheres. Now we're learning that different atmospheres have different effects.

The best Amazon Big Spring Sale deals for 2026: Sizeable savings on drones, Lego, streaming, star projectors and much more

Amazon's Big Spring Sale is your chance to save big on space-and-sci-fi tech and entertainment from the best star projectors, drones, Lego, streaming and more.

Get one last look at the Pleiades before it disappears from the spring sky

Here's how to spot the Pleiades before they become lost in the glow of the setting sun.

Early spring deals for observing the cosmos: Our top picks for stargazers

Do you want to get a better look at the universe around you? I've spotted these early deals on our best binoculars, cameras and telescopes, so you don't have to blow your budget for mind-blowing views.

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NASA announcing update to Artemis moon plans today: Watch it live

NASA will hold a series of events today (March 24) that update us on the agency's plans for the moon and more, and you can watch them live.

XRISM solves famous star’s 50-year mystery

An invisible companion consuming material from the naked-eye star gamma-Cas has been revealed as the culprit for curious X-rays coming from the stellar system. This closes the case on a mystery that has puzzled astronomers for more than fifty years. 

Giant Craters May Reveal if Psyche is a Lost Planetary Core

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in Empire Strikes Back, and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth of the solar system. While the asteroids that comprise the Main Asteroid Belt of our solar system are not only spread far apart from each other, they are also not all made of rock. One asteroid approximately the size of the State of Massachusetts called 16 Psyche is made of metal, which planetary scientists hypothesize could be the remnants of a protoplanet’s core that didn’t build into a full-fledged planet. But how did such a unique asteroid form?

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The Moon: Earth's Celestial Companion

The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, is a fascinating and essential part of our planet's existence. Below are some interesting facts about its characteristics, history, and effect on Earth.

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Scientists find 2 'failed stars' that may have a second chance to shine bright — by getting together

"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

10 major differences between the 'Project Hail Mary' book and movie

Ryland Grace's world-saving adventure saw a few changes during the jump from the page to the screen; here are ten big differences we spotted.


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