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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…
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Why is this star so weird? Maybe because it ate one of its own planets

November 27, 2025
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…
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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…
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Get closer to the stars with $64 off these rugged multi-purpose binoculars

November 25, 2025
Want a pair of powerful multi-purpose binoculars to gaze at the cosmos in your back garden? Thanks to Amazon’s Black Friday sale, you can save $64 on these Celestron Nature DX ED 8×42 binos, which are superb all-rounders. Get the Celestron Nature DX ED 8×42 binoculars at Amazon right now for $166. We rank these binoculars as the best beginner binoculars for all-round ability, and…
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