Evacuation orders affect hundreds in California, Oregon
SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — Evacuation orders affecting hundreds of people were issued in California and Oregon as wildfires neared small towns, including one that’s a prime location for viewing the eclipse....
View ArticleDuring the eclipse, is the moon moving backward?
Reading this on your phone? Stay up to date with our free mobile app. Get it from the Apple app store or the Google Play store. By Sarah Kaplan People say that the eclipse will start on the West Coast...
View Article‘A primal experience’: Americans dazzled by solar eclipse
By MARCIA DUNN The stars came out in the middle of the day, zoo animals ran in agitated circles, crickets chirped, birds fell silent and a chilly darkness settled upon the land Monday as the U.S....
View ArticleIt rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus
By Srah Kaplan | Washington Post Consider this your daily reminder that the solar system is even more awesomely bonkers than you realized: On Uranus and Neptune, scientists forecast rain storms of...
View ArticleRequiem for the Cassini space probe
Before dawn on Friday, scientists will gather at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to witness the death of an old friend: Cassini, a spacecraft that has awed and inspired generations as it spun...
View ArticleCassini’s fiery death witnessed by emotional NASA team
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of...
View ArticleSee Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, the document that crashed Cambridge website
LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, “Properties of...
View ArticleHow we’ll serenade aliens with music
A sampling of 18 unique types of techno-pop music has been hurled into space by a San Francisco-based research group, in search of an extraterrestrial audience. If aliens are expecting Barry Manilow,...
View ArticleHere’s your chance to help NASA build a home on Mars
Paradise on the Red Planet! Masterful design and modern technology are uniquely embodied in this one-of-a-kind, award-winning dream house, graced by spectacular panoramic views of Mother Earth. That...
View ArticleWatch: Blazing fireball turns night into day
By JAN M. OLSEN COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was “the glow of 100 full moons” and igniting...
View ArticleSome super views of our Supermoon
Related Articles ‘Supermoon’ will ring in 2018 Supermoon on Sunday kicks off trilogy of celestial shows King tide, Geminid flop: Supermoon exerts its power In the second of a three-act play by Mother...
View ArticleLunar trifecta: Blue moon, supermoon, total lunar eclipse rolled into one
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. By MARCIA DUNN | The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon is...
View ArticleMars rover’s stunning self-portrait released by NASA
Click here if you are having a problem viewing the photos or video on a mobile device By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has transformed selfies taken by its Mars rover Curiosity into a...
View ArticleSpaceX’s hot new monster rocket ready for first test flight
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. By MARCIA DUNN | The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL — SpaceX’s hot new...
View ArticleSpaceX Falcon Heavy has successful test flight
Related Articles What time is Elon Musk’s rocket launch? What will happen to that Tesla Roadster inside the SpaceX launch? By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s big new rocket blasted off...
View ArticleSelf-taught astronomer makes monumental discovery
Sarah Kaplan | Washington Post The moment he saw the brilliant light captured by his camera, “it all clicked” for Victor Buso: All the times his parents woke him before sunrise to gaze at the stars,...
View ArticleAstronomers’ big sighting: cosmic dawn, and maybe dark matter
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow after the Big...
View ArticleGeometric clusters of cyclones churn over Jupiter’s poles
This handout picture shows Jupiter’s South Pole in a mosaic of images acquired by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper at wavelengths. (NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAFPS) By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla....
View ArticleIs E.T. dead? Scientists listen for a pulse
MOUNTAIN VIEW – If we finally hear from aliens, it may be a death rattle. Civilizations are ephemeral things — and messages take so long to travel across our vast galaxy that E.T. probably perished...
View ArticleThe truth about astronaut Scott Kelly’s viral ‘space genes’
By Sarah Kaplan | Washington Post In March 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from an unprecedented 340-day mission on the International Space Station. A year later, his doctors released...
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