Eye Of The Storm: NASA Drones Dive Into Hurricanes In Search Of Secrets
Drones built for surveillance are being converted into hurricane hunters. It's a NASA program operating south of Ocean City.
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Drones built for surveillance are being converted into hurricane hunters. It's a NASA program operating south of Ocean City.
Soon, for weeks as a time, a large object is expected to light the night sky. it could be wonderful or a total bust.
NASA's newest robotic explorer rocketed into space late Friday in an unprecedented moonshot from the Eastern Shore that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast.
From the Eastern Shore to the moon. NASA will launch the LADEE spacecraft from Wallops Island, just over the Maryland line in Virginia.
Scorched earth. That's what new images from NASA satellites are showing across the world. Hotter, drier conditions are fueling more wildfires.
NASA is rescheduling its planned launch of two rockets from the Eastern Shore of Virginia to Friday.
It's not visible by eye, but the sun is experiencing a great deal of activity right now.
We are in an era where climate change and our carbon footprint are under the microscope. Scientists are constantly trying to learn more about these issues.
A bright light in the sky, moving tens of thousands of miles an hour. We're now learning more about Friday night's meteor.
NASA says it has extended the contract for operating the Hubble Space Telescope.
The calendar may say the first day of spring, but science is finding otherwise.
A very close encounter. Next Friday, an asteroid will pass the Earth at a very close range.
The National Archives is displaying rarely seen documents and items showing milestones in manned spaceflight from President Richard Nixon's administration.
Earth has been called a blue marble ever since that famous picture was snapped by astronauts standing on the moon.
When the International Space Station passed over Baltimore, one of the astronauts snapped a picture of Charm City.
NASA launched two satellites, built at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, into space early Thursday morning to explore radiation belts.
Storms, wind and heat flares. They're the weather conditions Johns Hopkins scientists see in space. Now they have a new spacecraft to watch and it launches this week from Cape Canaveral.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may be in the "future" business, but at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, it also has a footprint in the distant past.
Johns Hopkins University says one of its professors will accept the Gruber Prize in cosmology in Beijing.
NASA is receiving lots of new pictures from the Curiosity rover on Mars. The images show the horizon and the rover's shadow on the ground. Curiosity is on a mission to see if life ever existed on the red planet.
A $2.5 billion gamble has paid off. NASA's Mars rover named Curiosity is wheels down on the Martian surface.
Early next Monday morning, the largest, most advanced rover in NASA's history will land on Mars. It's called Curiosity.
Sally Ride blazed trails in space and across headlines as America's first woman astronaut. Her death is now bringing memories to life.
Looking around our nation, it's obvious that we need more heroines and heroes with Sally Ride's brave and courageous character. Her inspiration and legacy must live on to create the heroines – and heroes – of the future.
Forty years of looking down has captured a lot of change here on earth.
