+2 Local News Featured College of San Mateo professor explains the worlds beyond ours Susan Cohn Daily Journal Senior Correspondent Nov 22, 2025 Professor of physics and astronomy Darryl Stanford uses the planetarium at the College of San Mateo to show what can be seen in the skies and …
National Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Oct 4, 2022 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
Arts & Entertainment Featured Look Up By Michelle Morales Torres Jul 23, 2022 We will take one last look at Virgo in the west sky at around 9:30 p.m. Spica, the brightest star of the constellation and the 15th brightest …
Arts & Entertainment Look Up By Michelle Morales TorresUpdated Jan 14, 2022 Monday brings us the first full moon of the year. It will rise just before sunset and will set after the sun rises so it will be hard to miss …
National Cosmic gulp: Astronomers see black hole swallow neutron star By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Jun 29, 2021 Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the …
National Flash of luck: Astronomers find cosmic radio burst source By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Nov 4, 2020 A flash of luck helped astronomers solve a cosmic mystery: What causes powerful but fleeting radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe?
National Astronomers see possible hints of life in Venus's clouds By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Sep 14, 2020 Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighboring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the…
National Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hints of more By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer May 6, 2020 Meet your new but shy galactic neighbor: A black hole left over from the death of a fleeting young star.
National It's cloudy with a chance of iron rain at hot, faraway world By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Mar 11, 2020 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — At one hot, faraway world, it's always cloudy with a chance of iron rain. That's the otherworldly forecast from Sw…
National Biggest explosion seen in universe came from black hole By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Feb 27, 2020 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe, originating from a super-massive black hole.
