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Mountain View’s NASA Ames Spared From Obama Budget Cuts

NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View has been spared from President Barack Obama’s proposed budget cuts.

2013/04/11

Obama, NASA Embrace California Idea To Seize An Asteroid

NASA is planning to catch an asteroid and place it in orbit around the moon. NASA’s plan is similar to one suggested last year by experts at the California Institute of Technology.

2013/04/09

’30 Seconds To Mars’ Debuts Single In Space

Jared, Tomo & Shannon of ’30 Seconds To Mars’ called Megan Holiday of Live 105 & talked about their new single “Up In The Air” and “launching” it into space…

2013/03/18

Bay Area Viewers Attempt Glimpse Of Passing Asteroid

According to Oakland-based Chabot Space and Science Center astronomer Ben Burress, the asteroid missed Earth by about 17,230 miles, closer than many of earth’s satellites.

2013/02/15

A man in Moscow looks at a computer screen displaying a picture reportedly taken in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk on February 15, 2013, showing the trail of a meteorite above a residential area of the city. A heavy meteor shower rained down today on central Russia, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris smashed windows and injured dozens of stunned locals, officials said. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

NorCal Scientist Says Meteor Explosion Nearly Impossible To Predict

An event similar to the meteor explosion in the sky over Russia Friday morning, which blasted out countless windows and injured as many as 1,000 people, could happen without much warning in California, according to a local space scientist.

2013/02/15

Astronomers Estimate Milky Way Holds 17-Billion Earth-Sized Planets

Astronomers estimate one in six stars in our Milky Way galaxy has a planet the size of Earth orbiting it. That translates to at least 17 billion Earth-size planets.

2013/01/07

SpaceX Successfully Tests Reusable Rocket

A Southern California-based space company has successfully tested a reusable rocket it hopes will make it cheaper to go into space.

2012/12/25

Capitol Corridor Trains To Become More Bike Friendly

The state transit agency plans to increase the bicycle carrying capacity of 14 railcars from three bicycles per car to 13, and add 330 cubic feet of additional luggage storage as part of an $8.3 million conversion project, a spokesman said Friday.

2012/11/09

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

The Space Shuttle Endavour flies on top of a modified 747 jumbo jet over the Golden Gate Bridge, September 21, 2012. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Huge Bay Area Crowds Cheer Shuttle Endeavour Flyover

Hundreds of people gathered at San Francisco’s Crissy Field and in the Marin Headlands Friday morning to watch the Space Shuttle Endeavour make a low-altitude pass near the Golden Gate Bridge.

2012/09/21

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