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Gabiel Zavala (San Francisco Police Dept.)

Reward Offered In San Francisco Cold Case Homicide Of NASA Engineer

San Francisco police are offering a $10,000 reward for information in the 2005 fatal shooting of a NASA engineer in the city’s Excelsior District.

2013/02/26

An artist's concept of the new planet dubbed Kepler-37b. (NASA)

Kepler Telescope Finds Smallest Planet Yet Outside Solar System

Astronomers have found the smallest planet yet outside of our solar system.

2013/02/20

Signs Of Water On Mars Excites NASA Ames Scientists

Data being sent back by the Curiosity rover on Mars shows there was likely water on the red planet for thousands, if not millions of years.

2012/09/27

Sunday's meteor over the Sierra as seen from Reno, Nevada. (Lisa Warren/NASA-JPL)

Public Urged To Forward Sierra Meteor Photos, Video

NASA and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute were asking for the public’s help finding footage photos and video of a daylight meteor that fell over Northern California on Sunday.

2012/04/26

International Space Station To Be Visible Above Bay Area

Stargazers and space enthusiasts could have a chance to see the International Space Station in the skies above the Bay Area Tuesday Night.

2012/02/28

A woman is exercising using an antigravity treadmill. The idea was originally developed by scientists at NASA Ames in Mountain View. (CBS)

HealthWatch: New Treadmill Helps Users Defy Gravity

A new generation of treadmills developed in the Bay Area is using NASA technology to help users defy gravity.

2012/01/30

Artist's rendering of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, burning up as it re-enters earth's atmosphere. (NASA)

NASA Ames Researchers Monitoring Falling Satellite

A dead 6-ton satellite baffled NASA experts Friday by slowing its descent toward Earth and delaying its ultimate crash until the weekend.

2011/09/23

An illustration of the planet called Kepler-16b (foreground) which orbits two stars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Planet Orbiting 2 Suns, Just Like Star Wars

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler spacecraft has found a planet that orbits two stars just as Luke Skywalker’s home world does in the Star Wars movies, NASA announced Thursday.

2011/09/15

Final Space Shuttle Mission Crew Visits NASA Ames

Rex Walheim and his STS-135 comrades stopped by Moffett Field as part of a tour across the world to discuss their 13-day mission to the International Space Station last month, the 33rd and final flight for the Atlantis space shuttle.

CBS San Francisco–2011/08/23