Years of trying to do too many things with too little money have put NASA at risk of ceding leadership in space exploration to other... GRAIL mission delivers a hi-fi map of the moonBy Scott Gold, Los Angeles TimesA pair of NASA orbiters has given scientists their highest-fidelity look at the moon, a leap that... Arctic's loss of sea ice sets recordBy Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles TimesA fast-changing Arctic broke new records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as... NASA plans new rover mission on MarsBy Amina Khan and Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles TimesNASA officials announced plans to build a new rover that would follow Curiosity and Opportunity on... |
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TEHRAN — His son is named after the river born where the Tigris and Euphrates meet. His wife once complained that he loved a rare...
Los Angeles mayoral and City Council candidates should address air, soil, water and energy problems in their campaigns and the winners...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Tuesday to a Los Angeles lawyer who sought to absolve the county's flood...
Voyager 1, the spacecraft famous for beaming back striking photos of Jupiter, Saturn and their moons more than 30 years ago, has made...
NASA's Curiosity rover has picked up intriguing signs of organic compounds in the Martian soil, but the key ingredient — carbon...
Tomatoes in December? There was a time when that would have sounded absurd. But these days, you don't have to give up having tomatoes in...
California's push to add wind and solar energy to its existing power grid could saddle ratepayers with soaring electrical bills and...
SHAFTER — In this lush pocket of Kern County, where the agriculture and oil industries have long coexisted, Mike Hopkins' almond...
The last in a series of punishing storms swept through Northern California on Sunday, leaving downed power lines, cracked tree limbs and...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear a case from Los Angeles on Tuesday to decide for the first time who can be held responsible...
The federal government on Friday proposed protecting 66 kinds of corals under the Endangered Species Act, an acknowledgment that these reef-...
NASA's Curiosity rover was designed to search Mars for places capable of supporting life. But the $2.5-billion mission has another,...
Federal regulators grilled Southern California Edison publicly for the first time Friday on its proposal to restart part of the troubled San...
The Grand Canyon may be much older than widely believed, according to a new study that challenges the view that the American landmark was...
Mercury may be a scorching hunk of rock just next door to the sun, but planetary scientists have discovered nearly pure frozen water and...