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Electric discovery on Mars! Scientists find tiny lightning bolts coming from Red Planet dust clouds

December 2, 2025
Scientists have detected tiny lightning bolts on Mars for the first time — they were found discharging around NASA’s Perseverance rover and coming from dust-storm fronts and whirling dust devils. Finding the electrical discharges has solved a major Martian mystery, namely the origin of oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide on the Red Planet, which was discovered on Mars in 2003. These…
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Looking for a cheap Black Friday laptop deal? These 7 offers have caught my eye

December 1, 2025
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…
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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…
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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…
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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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