If you've been losing sleep over the heights and locations of the world's tallest trees, scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have developed a 3D global map that will quell your queries. more ›

Tonight is a great night to look up at the sky, because you're likely to catch a glimpse of the annual Quadrantids meteor shower. "This annual shower has one of the highest predicted hourly rates of all the major showers," explains Spacedex. more ›

Last night was prime viewing for the Geminid meteor showers, and one local man managed to get himself injured in a car accident in his pursuit to take in the celestial sight. more ›

Humans, we advise you to take five minutes out of your day to view Earth from a mind-blowing vantage point in today's video lunch. From August through October, the NASA crew of expeditions 28 and 29 aboard the International Space Station photographed our planet from 18 different locations. The shots have been transformed into a short, entrancing video of time lapse sequences. more ›

A bear that wandered onto NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus up in the hills of La Cañada Flintridge has joined Twitter so that he could apologize for scaring everyone and explain his true mission: he wanted to go to Mars. more ›

Hey, what are you doing tomorrow? Dentist appointment, lunch with your boss, seeing a movie? Forget it. We told you ages ago there was only one thing you needed on your schedule for October 21, 2011: The End of the World. more ›

A defunct, 6-ton bus-sized piece of space junk fell from the sky last night, streaked across the skies of Southern California and landed God knows where. more ›

A ball of light that flew through the sky last night was neither bird nor plane nor UFO; rather, experts at NASA believe that the object was a firey asteroid, reports NBC Los Angeles. The fireball made its speedy journey at about 7:30 p.m., and was visible to residents across the southwest -- sightings were reported not just in California but in Nevada and Arizona as well. more ›

Okay, we're not saying there is life on Mars, but if there is, these Martians should be all set to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. Workers added a little piece of the twisted rubble from the Twin Towers into the design of both of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity that were sent to Mars in 2003. more ›

A swatch of the famous moon-landing flag, thoughtfully fished from the trash in 1969, goes to auction today in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. The seven-inch strip of red and white fabric and a Neil Armstrong signed photograph are being auctioned by Tom Moser, a retired NASA engineer more ›

Vesta is coming into focus. Scientists working with The Dawn mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have created a new, Twilight Zone-looking video showing the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta as "the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in the main asteroid belt," reports NASA. more ›

The space shuttle Endeavor made a safe touch-down last night at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and now the countdown has begun for its arrival in Los Angeles as part of a permanent exhibit at the California Science Center. more ›

Mystics and Skeksis, grab your shards and look to the pre-dawn skies this week for a preview of the Great Conjunction. Four planets, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter are now visible to the naked eye, each spaced within 10 degrees of each other. more ›

NASA's Pasadena-based (Caltech) Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) left us all a little gift this week -- the first batch of data and images collected by an infrared satellite that captured the most detailed scan of the whole sky. more ›

Many thought James Cameron was capable of anything, not least of all the director of Avatar himself. But the 3-D imaging technology that transformed Avatar's fairy tale plot into the can't-miss, eye-popping moving experience of 2009 could not be adapted quickly enough for a visit to Mars. more ›

This is the only acceptable reason to leave Los Angeles and relocate to Florida: Astronauts4Hire is seeking prospective commercial astronauts. With great adventure comes great staffing needs, and A4H intends to grow its "private astronaut workforce," reports Neon Tommy. more ›

First there was the rain (and all that came with it), and then there were rainbows, and after a calm night, today there is sunshine in Los Angeles. The sunny weather is expected to last through Saturday afternoon, with clear or mostly clear skies in the forecast, calm winds, and highs in the mid-60s for the Los Angeles area. more ›

Grab a sparkly vampire and your umbrella, there's tonight's total lunar eclipse tonight! Tonight's cosmic event will last three hours and twenty-eight minutes and will be visible on the West Coast, theoretically, from 10:33 p.m. until 2:01 a.m. The deepest, reddest colors of the shadow should be visible at 12:17 a.m., however, given the extraordinary weather we're having, you may need to be airborne to see it from LA. more ›

The 7.2 quake that rattled south of the border over Easter earlier this year could have a powerful impact on Los Angeles, thanks to increased tension on local fault lines that has shifted since the springtime shaker, according to The LA Times. more ›

SpaceX, the Hawthorne based space exploration company (think rockets), made history today by being the first privately funded institution to launch and place into orbit a privately developed space vehicle. more ›

The airspace over Europe is slowly re-opening, and flights have begun to resume operations to and from destinations such as London, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt, with 22 local flights scheduled to and from LAX today. The plume of volcanic ash drifting across the continent from its source at Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to hold the world in its thrall and at its mercy. more ›

The plume of volcanic ash drifting through European airspace continues to keep air travel on hold, including more flights today departing and arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. NASA has released several images of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano showing the scope of the natural disaster as captured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, which communicates with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) here in Los Angeles. more ›