San Jose Conference Fueling Private Space Industry
The annual New Space Conference has become a center of gravity for the dozens of companies, inventors and enthusiasts who see profits in outer space.
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The annual New Space Conference has become a center of gravity for the dozens of companies, inventors and enthusiasts who see profits in outer space.
NASA said it will try to fix its space telescope that hunts for planets outside our solar system.
The Ames Research Center will play an important role in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's future, despite sequestration cuts that have impacted some day to day operations recently, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Space shuttle Endeavour was set Friday morning to make low, sweeping passes over the East Bay, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Sacramento and Los Angeles following a return to its California roots Thursday.
The Bay Area's Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released a statement Saturday after news of Neil Armstrong's death made its way around the world.
Now that the robotic explorer Curiosity has landed on Mars, exicted scientists from the NASA Ames research facility at Moffett Field are optimistic about finding Martians or other life forms on the red planet.
Looking around our nation, it's obvious that we need more heroines and heroes with Sally Ride's brave and courageous character. Her inspiration and legacy must live on to create the heroines – and heroes – of the future.
NASA is relying on social media and a Hollywood-style video on YouTube to promote its upcoming landing of a spacecraft on Mars.
Alameda Naval Station on the East shore of San Francisco Bay once thrived.
Sentinel, a massive infrared space telescope to be privately financed by the B612 Foundation, would hover in space anywhere from 30 million to 100 million miles from Earth looking for large asteroids on a trajectory for home.
Critics, including a U.S. Senator, have raised concern over Google's use of Moffett Field near Mountain View, saying the tech company is getting a sweetheart deal from the federal government.
The full moon Saturday night is no ordinary full moon. It's a 'super' moon.
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.
Experts say the flaming meteor, dating to the early formation of the solar system 4 to 5 billion years ago, was probably about the size of a minivan when it entered the Earth's atmosphere with a loud boom early Sunday.
NASA scientists working at a San Francisco sewage treatment plant in Hunter's Point believe they've developed a way to use wastewater to make biofuels.
The students at Washington Elementary looked up to the astronauts at the International Space Station. Their field trip Wednesday to the Tech Museum of Innovation left little doubt.
Stargazers and space enthusiasts could have a chance to see the International Space Station in the skies above the Bay Area Tuesday Night.
Exercise programs that make bold claims is nothing new. But a new kind of workout has grabbed the attention of Bay Area athletes, rescuers and NASA scientists.
NASA has awarded $73 million to San Jose State University to participate in research on how people interact with new technology that will be introduced during an overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system.
A new generation of treadmills developed in the Bay Area is using NASA technology to help users defy gravity.
