Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is projected to be widely visible across the West Coast when it launches today from the ...

NASA's upcoming EDGE satellite mission, led by UC San Diego, uses lasers to deliver unprecedented 3D mapping of Earth.

A Firefly Aerospace rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base today may be visible across the West Coast, including ...

Long before it was Mission Bay, 19th-century maps labeled the area “False Bay,” a tidal landscape of mudflats, creeks, and salt marsh.

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

A new map reveals where Antarctica is retreating fast, exposing hidden hotspots of grounded ice loss and future sea level ...

Just three months after declaring “I’m not quitting,” California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa announced Friday he is retiring ...

Former President Barack Obama is promoting a Democratic effort to redraw congressional lines in Virginia, the latest front in a nationwide redistricting ...

It’s clear the Democratic Party rank and file demands a new position on Israel. There’s one candidate, or maybe two, who can ...

If California had a favorite eccentric relative, it would be Santa Cruz, and you’d definitely want them at every family gathering. This coastal treasure about 75 miles south of San Francisco has spent ...

Well, buckle up, because there’s a fully restored Cold War missile site in the Marin Headlands that most Californians have no idea exists, and it’s one of the most fascinating places you’ll ever visit ...

The Presidio of Monterey (POM) is home to some of the Department of War’s most intellectually demanding missions.