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This awesome USS Enterprise Star Trek drone is 30% off for Black Friday

By Space.com Staff

Boldly take the Captain's chair on this classic 'Star Trek' ship, while supplies last

You can beam up 'Star Trek Catan' for 23% off this Black Friday

By Elizabeth Howell

You can beam up "Star Trek Catan" board game for 23% off a Amazon in a highly logical sale for Black Friday, so act fast while the deal is still in your quadrant.

Spaceflight

Brian Emfinger took this photograph on Jan. 2, 2012, in Ozark, Arkansas. He said: The radiant is very, very close to the Quadrantid but I'm not 100% sure it is indeed a Quadrantid.

On This Day in Space! Nov. 27, 1885: Astronomer captures 1st known photo of a meteor

By Hanneke Weitering, Elizabeth Howell

On Nov. 27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

Larger-than-life astronaut stars on Olay float in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

By Robert Z. Pearlman

If she could stand, the towering astronaut on Olay's first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade float would need a rocket about the same size as the tallest skyscraper in New York City.

Science & Astronomy

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker gets to work aboard the International Space Station after launching to the orbiting laboratory last Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020.

One-month free trial: ABCMouse teaches and entertains kids

By Jeanna Bryner

A great way to keep children busy and learning when stuck indoors.

Search For Life

An artist's depiction of a rocket blasting carefully packed Mars samples off the planet's surface for the journey to Earth.

Bringing Mars samples to Earth could cost an extra $1 billion, but NASA should totally do it, experts say

By Meghan Bartels

Holding a pristine piece of Mars in a lab on Earth is among the most ambitious dreams of planetary scientists, and NASA and its European counterpart want to make the dream a reality.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th-century English paleontologist. Curiosity collected three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe preserves an ancient habitable environment.

NASA's Curiosity rover snaps stunning selfie on Mars (photo)

By Mike Wall

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken another selfie, just a few months before its six-wheeled cousin joins it on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the Martian surface for future missions to retrieve and bring back to Earth.

NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 days

By Mike Wall

The life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside Jezero Crater on the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021.

Skywatching

This awesome USS Enterprise Star Trek drone is 30% off for Black Friday

By Space.com Staff

Boldly take the Captain's chair on this classic 'Star Trek' ship, while supplies last

The moon will dip into Earth's outer shadow in a minor penumbral lunar eclipse on Nov. 29-30, 2020.

November's Beaver Full Moon 2020: See a lunar eclipse and a near-minimoon

By Jesse Emspak

November's full moon on Nov. 30 will undergo a penumbral lunar eclipse, two days after reaching aphelion, when the moon is farthest from Earth.

You can beam up 'Star Trek Catan' for 23% off this Black Friday

By Elizabeth Howell

You can beam up "Star Trek Catan" board game for 23% off a Amazon in a highly logical sale for Black Friday, so act fast while the deal is still in your quadrant.

Entertainment

A scene from Star Trek Discovery's season 3 episode 7 "Unification III."

'Star Trek Discovery' season 3, episode 7 recap: The series' strong start feels like a different show entirely

By Scott Snowden

Michael Burnham returns to a familiar place in search of scientific data from a mysterious scientific project called SB-19 in "Star Trek: Discovery" season 3, episode 7.

Code like a Jedi with this Kano Star Wars The Force Coding Kit on sale for 60% off this Black Friday

By Elizabeth Howell

Your "Star Wars" obsessed kid has no excuse not to learn coding now, as the Kano "Star Wars" The Force Coding Kit is an amazing 60% off on Amazon.

Gravitrax Marble Run defies gravity with 30% off Black Friday sale

By Elizabeth Howell

This award-winning game costs just $41.99 on Amazon

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