SF News Bright Streak In Bay Area Sky Wednesday Night Was ISS Astronauts Returning Home A bright light with an extended tail seen burning across the night sky in the Bay Area early Thursday was no ordinary meteor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Yellow Fever’ Mosquito Spotted in Antioch, Residents Urged to Dump Standing Water NASA lost track of one of its probes, which ended up on a Texas farm; the SF Bar Association says SF DA Brooke Jenkins is creating a hostile environment for judges; and the “yellow fever” mosquito is thriving in Antioch thanks to the rain.
SF News NASA Satellite Image Shows Blanket Of Smoke From Northern California Wildfires As we begin to learn today about individual lives lost and lives impacted by loss of their homes in the Bay Area's wine country and beyond where upwards of 15 wildfires are burning
SF News Video: Cool NASA Video Shows Before And After Images Of California's Drought We got through a historic drought and have come out the other side after the atmospheric rivers and steady rains of this past winter in California. Especially in Northern California and around the
Arts & Entertainment Google Celebrates Discovery Of New Planets With Painfully Adorable Animated Doodle Google's Doodles, those little pictures you see when you go to their main search page, typically acknowledge that day's holiday, anniversary, or, occasionally, make a subtle political point. But today's is pure joy,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Yosemite Sure Does Look Nice From Space Everyone loves Yosemite National Park (even President Obama!), and photos abound of the park in all its glory — think firefalls, art installations, and rare foxes. Well, we know have another picture to add
SF News Video: Exploratorium Livestreams Total Solar Eclipse From Micronesia Tonight According to the Exploratorium, there are just 100 miles in Southeast Asia from which a total Solar Eclipse, the astronomical event of the year, will be visible. Wait, you couldn't get to Micronesia
SF News SpaceX Vertically Lands Its Falcon 9 Rocket, Geeks Everywhere Rejoice SpaceX finally did it. The pioneering company in contract with NASA to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station managed yesterday to vertically land its Falcon 9 rocket on a landing pad in
SF News Google Leases NASA Airfield In Mountain View The perennial question, "What will Google do with X," gets juicier when X is a NASA airfield of 1,000 acres, several hangars, two runways, a flight operations building, and a private golf
SF News Summer Of Supermoons Starts Saturday Be sure to check out the full moon on Saturday night, which promises to be super-sized. It’s called a “supermoon,” an overzealous way of saying old Luna is larger, brighter, and closer
SF News Photo: The California Rim Fire, Seen From Space Monday afternoon, the orbit of the International Space Station crossed directly over the 150,000-acre wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park. NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg snapped this photo from over 200 miles above
Arts & Entertainment LEGO To Make Mars Curiosity Rover In Ultimate Nerd Dream Crossover Rejoice, interlocking block enthusiasts and fans of infamous NASA mohawk guy: LEGO has just announced that it will be producing a Mars Curiosity Rover replica that children and lovable nerds can erect in
SF News Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA's Mohawked Superstar, Gets A Free Ticket To The State Of The Union Bobak Ferdowsi, the man who helped land the Curiosity rover on Mars and then drove it straight into our hearts, will be sporting his trademark mohawk alongside whatever Michelle Obama decides to throw
Arts & Entertainment Photo: The Geminid Meteor Shower Over San Francisco Photographer Tony Eckersley shot this amazing composite photo of seven meteors over San Francisco during a one-hour period of the Geminid meteor shower Thursday night. "I saw around 30 total," Tony explains, "shame
SF News Video: In Case You Missed It, Here's The Space Shuttle Endeavour Buzzing The Golden Gate Bridge Because even these stunning photos can't always do justice to one of the greatest achievements of American ingenuity, here are a few videos of Endeavour's final flight — indeed the final flight of any
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Space Shuttle Endeavour Over San Francisco Skies Here they are, folks: Photographs from the Space Shuttle Endeavour's delightful tour around the Bay Area this morning. Did you catch a glimpse? We personally haven't been this excited about space since the
SF News Watch Endeavour Fly Over The Bay Area Live [Updates] Note: Looking for photos from Space Shuttle Endeavour's Bay Area flyover? You can find those right here. Good morning, space fans! If you're patiently awaiting the Space Shuttle Endeavour's arrival in San Francisco
SF News Where To Watch Tomorrow's Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover [Updated] Note: Looking for photos from Space Shuttle Endeavour's Bay Area flyover? You can find those right here. As you know, the Space Shuttle Endeavour will fly low and slow over the Bay Area
SF News NASA Moves Space Shuttle Endeavour Flyover to Friday, Releases Additional Details Heads up, Space Camp alumni: due to inclement weather forecasts down in Florida, NASA has postponed the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Bay Area flyover to this Friday, September 21st. In addition to the change
SF News Space Shuttle Endeavour To Buzz San Francisco Thursday, September 20th On the morning of September 20th, the 12 year old in all of us will be stirred awake by the sight of Space Shuttle Endeavour flying low over San Francisco and her many
Arts & Entertainment 'Still Living The Dream,' Says NASA Dreamboat Bobak Ferdowsi On Monday, Mars rover Curiosity landed with aplomb... as did the mohawk-sporting rover lead, Bobak Ferdowsi, who crash-landed into the hearts of countless geekphiles. Ferdowsi recently spoke with Shira Lazar of What's Trending,
Arts & Entertainment Bobak Ferdowsi, Mars Rover Guide, Lands Into Our Hearts Early Monday morning, the NASA rover Curiosity landed on Mars after "seven minutes of terror." During that time, Curiosity's activity lead, Bobak Ferdowsi, also plummeted into the hearts of many with his kicky
SF News Internet Tries To Figure Out Sally Ride's Posthumous Lesbian Revelation Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, passed away yesterday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Ride, who joined the space program in 1978, led something of a reserved life up
Arts & Entertainment Seven Astounding Photos Of Transit Of Venus Holy moly! Did you see Tuesday's Transit of Venus phenomenon? It looked like a little dot speck on the sun, but it was still pretty amazing, the likes of which you won't see
SF News Photo: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Floating Off The Pacific After spending a week in orbit, the SpaceX Dragon returned to Earth and was found floating in the Pacific near California. "Reentry scorch marks visible on the heat shield," notes SpaceX CEO Elon
