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Buying Guide The best telescopes for kids — simple to set up, use and enjoy — these instruments will give young astronomers memorable skywatching experiences.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe, which delivered samples of the space rock Bennu to Earth, is now on an extended voyage to study the infamous near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.

Here are all the best binoculars deals on the market including the biggest discounts out there on the market.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from California early Monday morning (Sept. 25), carrying 21 Starlink satellites to orbit.

During the two upcoming solar eclipses, the National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) will be livestreaming and doing science above 99.5% of the atmosphere.

NASA successfully recovered a capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu taken by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission will return pieces of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Follow the historic landing live here.

Hey NASA, you've just landed your first samples from an asteroid! Where are they going next? Houston, of course.

The Virtual Telescope Project will point its telescopes towards NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Sept. 23 as it approaches Earth to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu.

The first asteroid samples ever collected by NASA are closing in on Earth for a historic landing in Utah today (Sept. 24).

With NASA planning more missions to space in the future, scientists are studying how to mitigate health hazards that come with space flight.

On Sept. 24, 2014, India's first interplanetary mission entered into orbit around Mars!

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is set to deliver its asteroid sample to Earth on Sunday morning (Sept. 24), and you can watch the historic action live.

Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky — but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for a record-tying 17th time Saturday night (Sept. 23), carrying 22 Starlink satellites to orbit.

20th Century Studios releases the final trailer for director Gareth Edwards' sci-fi epic 'The Creator.'

On Episode 80 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod are joined by the inspiring Franklin Chang-Diaz, a former NASA astronaut and CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company.

On Saturday (Sept. 23) at 2:50 a.m. EDT (0650 GMT), autumn begins astronomically in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring starts in the South.

Asteroid Bennu is the space rock with the highest known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will help us protect ourselves.