117 days ago - Tucked away among the colorful offices of NASA’s Earth Sciences Division, engineers are quickly and quietly preparing the first steps of America’s second “great leap” to the moon.
368 days ago - NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., will be open to the public for one day to highlight new research areas and intriguing projects including a lunar habitat, the world's fastest water-powered sled and a giant wind tunnel.
457 days ago - When NASA launches its Dawn spacecraft, slated for today, on a mission to learn about the formation of planets, a University of Maryland professor will have helped make it happen.
477 days ago - Space instruments manufactured by Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin have provided mankind’s first three-dimensional views of the sun as well as new information on the solar atmosphere, the company said Monday.
511 days ago - Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter formed during a collision between two massive galaxy clusters.