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The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed safely on Sept. 24 with its precious cargo of pieces of the primitive asteroid Bennu. In honor of that and the other asteroid missions

This Thursday will be the start of the fall season of shows at the William M. Thomas Planetarium with "Mars One Thousand One" (or "Mars 1K1").

Next Saturday (Sept. 9) is the Dark Sky Festival at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks. There will be a keynote address by Dr. Cameron Hummels, the director of astrophysics outreach at

Well, the astronomy outreach about the Perseids was obviously successful because the observing site our local astronomy club, the Kern Astronomical Society, uses for observing was packed for the peak

Tonight the moon is in a waning gibbous phase, two days before third (or last) quarter. That means it will be just a waning crescent phase this Saturday night (the

A couple of days after I filed my July 2 column, my wife got a message from her aunt on her grandsons latest astronomy discovery about the origin of the

These grants fund research into the bleeding edge of space technology.

Several futuristic projects have just been awarded money through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts programme – here are New Scientist's top five choices

A total of 17 researchers from nine states will share in a $5.1 million grant from NASA, allowing them to run early-stage studies into the yet-to-be-developed technologies.

An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere