College of the Canyons will host its Fall 2026 Star Party on Friday, Oct. 16, featuring a keynote presentation by Dave Margrave, chief engineer of the RS-25 Rocket Engine program at L3Harris Technologies. Margrave will present “Artemis II and the Core Stage Rocket Engine,” offering insights into the RS-25 engines that power NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and support ...

College of the Canyons (COC) will host its Spring 2026 Star Party on Thursday, April 24, featuring a keynote presentation by Teresa Ciardi, a physical science and astronomy instructor at the college.  Ciardi will present “The Life of a Star: From Birth to End,” an engaging exploration of how stars form, evolve, and ultimately meet their end. “Some stars fade ...

College of the Canyons will host its Fall 2025 Star Party on Friday, Oct. 24, featuring a keynote presentation by Dr. Athina Peidou, a geodesist and GRACE-FO Project Staff Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Peidou will present “Monitoring the Global Water Cycle with GRACE-FO Missions,” sharing insights from NASA’s mission that tracks the movement of water across the planet, ...

College of the Canyons is scheduled to host their Spring Star Party later with month at the Canyon Country campus. The Star Party is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 25, at the COC Canyon Country campus. Michaela Blain, a COC astronomy professor, will present “The Unfolding Story of Exoplanets,” which will focus on the quickly growing subfield of ...

Science Talks and College of the Canyons Canyon Country Campus is set to present the Star Party and Science Showcase next month. Michaela Blain, Astronomy Professor at College of the Canyons will be a special guest speaker at the Star Party, set to take place 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, April 25. Star Party highlights will include, faculty and ...

On Friday, Nov. 1, Dr. Jason Wright, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at Penn State, will present “Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials” at the College of the Canyons Fall 2024 Star Party. Wright will discuss the modern scientific search for extraterrestrial life, and what media portrayals get right and wrong. As a member of the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable ...

College of the Canyons (COC) hosted its annual Star Party for the community in Canyon Country on Friday night.  On Friday, COC hosted its annual Star Party featuring the “Science Talks Series Presents” at the Canyon Country Campus.  “We love coming out, we love sharing about astronomy and stem projects and we welcome you guys,” said Dave Flynn, member and ...

 College of the Canyons (COC) is scheduled to host its annual Star Party this spring.  Dr. J (Bob) Balaram, an inventor and retired chief engineer of the Mars Ingenuity Project as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is set to discuss the development and operations of the Mars helicopter and the implications for future exploration of the Red Planet in his presentation ...

Dr. Varoujan Gorjian, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is scheduled to present “A Brief History of JPL” at the Canyon Country College of the Canyons Campus for the Fall 2023 Star Party.   At the free event which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 3rd from 6 to 9:30 p.m, guests can expect to see pictures from ...

Santa Clarita residents of all ages gravitated to the College of the Canyons (COC) Canyon Country Campus Star Party Friday night to see out-of-this-world advancements in science and technology. The Star Party guest speaker for the evening was Dr. Jennifer Burt, Ph.D., an extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) Investigation Scientist working with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program office at JPL. An ...