LOS ANGELES (KABC) — On Tuesday, a day before a 4.8-magnitude temblor rattled nerves along the Santa Barbara coast, California lawmakers approved a bill calling for a statewide earthquake early warning system. The legislation is on its way to the …

PlanRad Live takes to the road again, this time visiting the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach, California for a conversation with enthusiastic team members from Xcor Aerospace, where they are building the Lynx spaceplane, and the Zero-G Corporation, whose …

If anybody knows the identity of this arachnid, please let him know I’ll be sending him/her a bill for the ,000 worth of psychiatric therapy needed to fix me after he triggered an episode of arachniphobia. By: Exkhaniber

President Barack Obama takes the stage after being introduced by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, and US Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during an event where Obama outlined a bold new course the administration is charting to maintain U.S. leadership in human space flight at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Thursday, [...]

NASA pilot Jeff Moultrie guides the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to a picture-perfect touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA co-pilot Bill Rieke at his side. The aircraft, known as an SCA, arrived at 5:35 p.m. EDT to prepare for shuttle Discovery’s ferry flight to the Washington Dulles [...]

Editor’s Note I’m cheating a little in calling this an Earth observation — as you can see, this was taken by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls, not the International Space Station crew. But the whimsical lines of the parachute and soil tempted me too much not to post it. The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft touches down with [...]