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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.

Estes model rockets launch into Cyber Monday deals!

Take to the skies with these beginner rocket kits, now up to 20% off for Cyber Monday.

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?

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 […]

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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.

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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.

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