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On Tuesday, May 16th, we had the privilege of touring NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Nationwide, gas prices were predicted to be lower this summer compared to the last three years, but that won't translate into savings at the pump this Memorial Day weekend, experts said.

Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as flashes of light, blinking on and off at intervals from seconds to milliseconds.

Each week, Patch puts together a list of local activities and events going on in your area this weekend.

While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth's Moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission's Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles .

Reese joins Sigmanet from Greenbelt, Md.-based solution provider Presidio Networked Solutions, where he most recently served as senior vice president, technology, West area.

A former U.S. Army soldier accused of trying to provide support to a terrorist organization in Somalia after he left the military has asked a court to dismiss the case against him, saying he never had any contact with the group.

Three Prince George's County technology companies took top honors in a Maryland Technology Development Corp.

Technologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., created what they believe is the world's first "pulsar-on-a-table, " a laboratory system shown here for testing emerging X-ray navigation technologies.... Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities.

A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which fast-changing phenomena, like clouds, contribute to that imbalance.

Eleven years ago this week, one of the worst storms on record raged on the sun, churning huge amounts of plasma around the solar surface and spewing massive loads of particles into space and toward Earth.

Opportunity pops a 'wheelie' on Mars on May 15, 2013 and then made history by driving further to the mountain ahead on the next day, May 16 , to establish a new American distance driving record for a vehicle on another world.

Traveling on Metro this weekend? Stay informed about delays. Metro will perform system rebuilding work on all but one line in this weekend.

The suspect, 59-year-old Ronnie Lee Rainey, was taken into custody after briefly barricading himself in his home.

NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured this infrared view of Alvin on May 17 at 1200 UTC about three hours after it weakened to a post-tropical cyclone.... The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named.

The Opportunity rover passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972, but the Soviet Union still holds the international record This chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth's moon and Mars.

NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.

Prince George's County police have released a photograph of a suspect in Tuesday's burglary in University Park .

New instrument that will measure the amount of solar energy reflected by Earth and the amount emitted to space as infrared radiation A team of scientists, including Warren Wiscombe from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most... A team of scientists has won a berth on a ... (more)

They scrubbed up and suited up to perform one of the most delicate performances of their lives.