California
Dubbed the 2024 PT5, the ‘mini-moon’ will orbit Earth for nearly two months. It comes in a season of lunar phenomena.
Sept. 19, 2024
Television
SERIES30 for 30 Filmmaker Nicole Lucas Haimes’ documentary explores the arena of competitive eating, particularly as reflected in the celebrated rivalry between Japan’s Takeru “Kobi” Kobayashi and Californian Joey Chestnut. 5 and 6:30 p.m.
July 1, 2019
Science & Medicine
During a career at JPL that spanned more than half a century, Pete Theisinger worked on missions to six planets, including Mars rovers and Voyager.
July 19, 2024
World & Nation
Israel under fire for ‘GPS spoofing’ affecting airplane navigation systems in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus.
July 9, 2024
Opinion
To the editor: Pope Francis’ urgent call to all humanity, both to recognize that protecting the planet is a moral and ethical imperative and, while there’s still time, to cut off at the knees the destructive juggernaut of global climate change, will hopefully create the political will among the world’s leaders to act in unison to establish a road map to a sustainable energy economy for all nations, rich and poor.
June 21, 2015
Obituaries
Ed Stone, who guided NASA’s breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, has died.
June 11, 2024
Claudia Alexander, a NASA scientist who oversaw the dramatic conclusion of the space agency’s long-lived Galileo mission to Jupiter and managed the United States’ role in the international comet-chasing Rosetta project, died July 11 at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia.
July 17, 2015
Entertainment & Arts
Few things brighten up a day like Jaden Smith speaking his mind.
Oct. 20, 2015
Rick Perry: He’s no Galileo
Sept. 9, 2011
Re “Galileo put us in our place,” Opinion, Feb. 8 Jeffrey Bennett has it backward when he implies that because the people of the Middle Ages thought the Earth was at the physical center of the universe, they must have thought humanity was at the spiritual, moral or symbolic center of the universe too.
Feb. 15, 2009