Black Friday laptop deals are coming thick and fast, and I have been keeping an eye on the major retailers to find the best savings suitable for astronomy and photo/video editing.
The best laptops for astronomy and astrophotography are generally those that offer a considerable amount of graphics performance and RAM. They will allow you to run the essential software like image editing tools but…
Celestron Origin Telescope Gets $200 Off in Black Friday Deal
November 28, 2025
What’s better than gazing into the depths of the cosmos, taking in all its amazing sights? Capturing those sights and sharing them with others, which is where the Celestron Origin Home Observatory comes and, thanks to B&H Photo’s Black Friday sale, it’s…
Celestron Nexstar 6SE Drops to Lowest Price in Black Friday Sale
November 28, 2025
Celestron is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, names in the telescope industry, with a huge range of telescopes to suit the casual observer or the professional astrophotographer. Amazon’s early Black Friday deals are delivering some good deals across telescopes…
US-Russian Soyuz crew launches to the International Space Station on Thanksgiving Day
November 28, 2025
Holiday travel reached new heights today (Nov. 27), as an American astronaut left home for Thanksgiving dinner — in Earth orbit.
Chris Williams of NASA, together with his Soyuz MS-28 crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, both cosmonauts with Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos, lifted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, beginning a planned…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Black Friday deal on one of the best beginner DJI drone bundles!
November 27, 2025
The DJI Mini 3 may be small, and so lightweight you don’t need to register it, but it’s an absolute superstar when it comes to soaring over the landscape and capturing 4K video. This DJI Mini Fly More Combo adds in a remote with a screen, three batteries (for a…
I've hand-picked all the best Black Friday VPN deals for 2025, save over 70% on select services
November 27, 2025
Black Friday VPN deals are landing, and we’ve rounded up the very best ahead of the annual sales event to keep you secure while traveling and streaming online.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and it makes your device appear as if it’s in another location…
The red giant star Kepler-56 has a really weird spin, and it may be because it consumed one of its planets.
Kepler-56 already has two known exoplanets, but they may have had a long-lost sibling, Takato Tokuno, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo, concluded after analyzing the star’s peculiar properties.
One strange quality of Kepler-56 is that its…
We don't mean to drone on but this five-star DJI Mini 4K drone is 20% cheaper for Black Friday
November 26, 2025
As camera drones go you’re spoilt for choice, but this DJI Mini 4K hits the sweet spot between affordability and functionality, so much so that we awarded it a massive five stars in our review. Now, thanks to Amazon’s Black Friday sale, you can save $60 on this…
Boeing's next Starliner spacecraft to fly won't carry NASA astronauts when it launches in April 2026
November 26, 2025
Over a decade ago, NASA picked Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, agreeing to pay billions of dollars for up to a half-dozen crewed flights. Some of those flights, it turns out, may not happen, and the next Starliner to fly won’t…
China launches uncrewed Shenzhou capsule for 3 astronauts stuck on Tiangong space station (video)
November 26, 2025
Three Chinese astronauts won’t be “stranded” in orbit for much longer.
A Long March 2F/G rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China tonight (Nov. 24) at 11:11 p.m. EST (0411 GMT and 12:11 p.m. on Nov. 25 Beijing time).
The rocket sent the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft toward China’s Tiangong space station in low Earth orbit, on a dramatic and…
