Johns Hopkins Researcher Shares $500K Gruber Prize
Johns Hopkins University says one of its professors is among those sharing the $500,000 Gruber Prize in cosmology for their work on a NASA project.
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Johns Hopkins University says one of its professors is among those sharing the $500,000 Gruber Prize in cosmology for their work on a NASA project.
A western Maryland laboratory is getting a NASA grant to study whether global warming is causing trees to grow faster.
A former NASA employee has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in an alleged copyright infringement scheme led by two Chinese nationals.
NASA is sending two T-38 training jets over the Washington area on test flights as the space agency prepares to deliver the recently retired space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian this month.
IMAX Corp. is donating its first cameras used to film aboard the space shuttle to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
Phil Arnold had no plans for spring break, but if he did, he says he'd cancel them. The architecture and engineering design teacher at Frederick County's Career and Technology Center now plans to spend those early April days in the CTC's computer-assisted design lab.
A massive eruption on the sun is being closely monitored here on earth.
It was the ultimate career day for students at one city school in South Baltimore. They got a chance to meet a former NASA astronaut.
Skywatchers along the East Coast may be able to see a NASA experiment that will launch a series of rockets to learn more about the little-understood jet stream winds that circle the Earth at the edge of space.
NASA is making a cosmic U-turn on the road to Mars.
NASA and Morgan State University are teaming up to produce some of the best engineers and scientists.
High school students from Maryland and Virginia are gearing up for a robotics competition at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility.
It's a simple idea, and it could save NASA a lot of money.
Scientists say a six ton satellite is on a crash course with Earth.
By Friday, we should have a better idea where an errant NASA satellite will fall.
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski says a bill passed by a Senate committee includes funding for the James Webb Telescope.
NASA's 3D application, "Eyes on the Solar System," lets users navigate the solar system.
A spaceship Lockheed Martin is building for NASA is being prepared for the next round of tests as engineers attach an "abort tower" designed to lift the ship and its astronauts to safety if something goes wrong during launch.
NASA is bringing its Future Forum series to the University of Maryland's College Park campus.
For most of July, NASA's large research aircraft has been cruising the I-95 corridor between D.C. and the Delaware line. On board, instruments and scientists have been sampling and collecting Maryland's air.
NASA is continuing low-level flights over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor to help improve satellites' ability to measure air quality.
Food scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have prepared a special "All-American Meal" for the final space shuttle crew, and you can participate.
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski says a House subcommittee vote to end funding for the James Webb Telescope is shortsighted and will kill 2,000 jobs nationwide.
Using a large plane to fly low over Maryland, NASA has begun a first of its kind study of air quality.
NASA says low-level flights over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor to improve satellite monitoring of air quality are set to begin.
