COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The College Park Aviation Museum hosted its spring home-school day. The event gives students an opportunity they don’t usually get: to work with different teachers and experience a classroom-like setting with other students. The students got…
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Two solar flares erupt causing electric disruptions on Earth
BOULDER, Co. – Two solar flares erupted on March 28 causing disruptions to electric communications as well as the viewing of the Northern Lights. Space scientist Robert Steenburgh describes the significance of this event and insight on what’s to come…
Spacecraft Lucy launches to space on a mission to discover
Greenbelt, MD – Lucy is a first-of-its-kind mission for NASA that will explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to learn more about how our solar system came to exist. Lead by Greenbelt’s own NASA Goddard, Lucy is expected to travel 4 billion…
UMD Observatory provides new images of meteor
The University of Maryland’s observatory provides a “space” for students to take part in long-term research projects and get hands-on experience with different telescopes and software. Their efforts are paying off with the use of a number of cameras taking pictures of the night sky and capturing images few have seen.
Three unique challenges of those newly-discovered exoplanets
Don’t book your ticket to TRAPPIST-1, just yet. Here’s a look at three unique features of the newly-discovered solar system that might complicate things a bit.
Baltimore Native & NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Gives Kids a Tour of Outer Space
Native Baltimorean and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman returned to earth in November after six months aboard the international space station. He told the kids and visitors at the Maryland Science Center that he hopes they follow in his footsteps by obtaining a strong science background.
Asteroid Flyby: How Close Was 2004 BL86 to Earth
This week, a 550-meter-wide asteroid flew so close to the Earth that it was visible with high-powered binoculars, according to NASA. But how close is close, exactly, in space?
Furloughed NASA Goddard Employees Back to Work
With the government shutdown over, life is returning to normal for employees at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Maryland Representatives Pledge to Keep Funding NASA
After the congressional debt super committee’s failure to reach a deal last week, Hoyer warned that cuts may be on the horizon.
NASA Launches Tweetup
More than one hundred Twitter users attended a “tweetup” at NASA’s Washington headquarters on Thursday