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Why wait for Black Friday? The Celestron 114LCM computerized telescope is $115 off right now
By Paul Brett published
Deal This powerful Newtonian reflector telescope has hundreds of 5-star Amazon reviews and a previous Black Friday best price-beating discount.
James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes.
Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar 'H-bomb' exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph
By Jamie Carter published
A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Most of Earth's meteorites may have come from the same 3 spots
By Conor Feehly published
Scientists say they've uncovered where the vast majority of Earth's meteorites came from.
Scientists have dated the moon's oldest, and largest, impact site
By Stefanie Waldek published
The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have dated the basin to the period between 4.32 and 4.33 billion years ago.
Accidental discovery of 1st-ever 'black hole triple' system challenges what we know about how singularities form
By Harry Baker published
Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen gravitational triad. The system's unique configuration suggests that the black hole was not created as scientists initially expected.
Perseverance rover watches a solar eclipse on Mars
By Stefanie Waldek published
On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the tiny moon Phobos crossing the sun's face.
Supernova that lit up Earth's skies 843 years ago has a flowering 'zombie star' at its heart — and it's still exploding
By Harry Baker published
A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are unusually wonky and are still exploding at a constant speed.
4 large asteroids, including a skyscraper-size 'city killer,' will zoom past Earth in a 12-hour span tomorrow (Oct. 24)
By Harry Baker published
Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two of them were only discovered earlier this month.
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