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Newsmakers: Teacher to participate in STEM project

2012-05-21 07:19:00

Jeremy Smith, of Hereford High School has been selected to participate in the 2012-2013 Baltimore Excellence in STEM Teaching Project. The project, funded by a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, seeks to improve secondary...

SpaceX pushes back the final frontier

2012-05-19 03:00:00

If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station...

NASA holding space telescope Q&A on Twitter

2012-05-16 13:03:00

Have questions about space and the James Webb Space Telescope? John Mather, a Nobel laureate and scientist working on the telescope, will answer them on Twitter tomorrow. The telescope is slated for a 2018 launch and is seeking to find the first galaxies...

Bits & Pieces: Vitagliano and Qui win Davidson scholarships

2012-05-15 23:07:00

Adriana Vitagliano of Atholton High School and River Hill's Eric Qui have been declared the winners of the 2012 Robert Davidson Scholar/Athlete Awards. Hammond's Nicole Dawson and Mt. Hebron's Andrew Risinger were the runners-up. Once again the...

NASA image shows galaxy with active black hole

2012-05-11 11:44:00

A NASA image released Friday shows a glimpse of a galaxy with an active black hole, the focus of a recent discovery much of which was made in Baltimore. The space agency's image of the day gallery shows an active black hole squelching star formation in�...

West Laurel: Health runs evolved into long-distance races for our neighbor

2012-05-08 08:01:14

Ed Masuoka is a guy who started running in 2007 to control his weight and has been running ever since. With a mostly sedentary job at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, he ran 1,800 miles on a treadmill and lost almost 50 pounds the first year. At a height...

Skywatching opportunity: Aquarid meteor shower this weekend

2012-05-02 10:58:00

Clouds blocked our view of the recent Lyrid meteor shower, but there is another chance to see “shooting stars” this weekend. The Eta Aquarids are expected to peak in the early mornings of Saturday and Sunday. The meteors come from a cloud...

Hopkins-led study observes destruction of star by black hole

2012-05-02 17:47:00

It's rare to witness the entirety of a murder. But that's how some local scientists investigated exactly what happened during a fatal attack in 2010. The victim? A star — a massive red giant — 2.7 million light-years away that had lost its...

Softball: Sheridan resigns as Glenelg coach

2012-04-26 19:23:00

Longtime Glenelg coach Dean Sheridan stepped down as varsity softball coach last week. But he says it's a temporary hiatus because of several events going on in his life. Calling this an end to his coaching career "may be a little premature," he wrote...

Watch the International Space Station fly over Baltimore tonight

2012-04-11 03:00:00

Baltimoreans can get a nice look at the International Space Station tonight – late enough to be visible but early enough for the kids to watch before bedtime. The station will appear as a bright, swiftly moving star just over the southwest...

Day trips: Welcome Discovery, celebrate Earth Day

2012-04-17 10:12:00

Washington Space Shuttle Discovery, National Air and Space Museum The space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new home at...

Windsor Mill man pleads guilty in Chinese software piracy case

2012-04-18 15:06:00

A Windsor Mill man, a former NASA employee, has pleaded guilty in Delaware federal court to buying more than a million dollars' worth of pirated software from black-market Chinese vendors who themselves were indicted Wednesday in federal court in...

Tony Kulesa will receive a $66,000 fellowship from NASA to assist with a lunar habitat project at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

2012-05-20 20:19:00

An image from NASA-TV shows the Space X Falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad at in Cape Canaveral, Fla., seconds after the launch was aborted.

2012-05-19 00:00:00

The Soyuz TMA-04M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 carrying Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin to the International Space Station.

2012-05-17 11:25:00