Greenbelt News

A rare opportunity to see the planet Venus cross in front of the face of the sun is coming up next week.

For students new and old, New Chicago Dance Studio in Greenbelt, MD, is hosting a student appreciation party Saturday afternoon, June 2, from noon to 3 p.m. Party-goers will have a chance to learn about the studio's new "four seasons of dance," while eating cupcakes and taking part in dance games.

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected TRAX International of Las Vegas to provide for Goddard Logistics and Technical Information services at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

25, 2007. The Sun is in false color, and the moon appears as a black disk on the upper right.

GREENBELT, Md. - An Upper Marlboro couple has pleaded guilty to harboring a Filipina national whom they had arranged to bring to the U.S. on false pretenses, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod.

Today was Graduation Day for about 630 senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt Maryland, the school that has been my home for 13 of the past 14 years, and from which I will be retired in 2 weeks.

Reporting in the journal, Optics Express , a team led by Paul Lett of the Joint Quantum Institute in Greenbelt, Md.

Rolling Thunder stopped off at the Greenbelt American Legion on Sunday for breakfast, then headed out on the annual motorcycle rally in Washington , for the 25th Anniversary of the event.

A Capitol Heights man was sentenced Friday to more than three years in prison and three years of supervised release for assisting in a January 2011 armed robbery of a Landover bank branch, according to the U.S. Attorney for Maryland.

NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed.

So when she didn't pass the entrance exam for Roosevelt's regular science and technology program, Nwaneri applied for an alternative at the same school: the Quality Education in Science and Technology program, which was created in 1990 to increase the number of black students taking math, science and engineering classes there.

A Center City May 18 at 11:58 p.m.: Burglary. 200 block Lakeside Drive. Jewelry and electronics were taken.

Giovanni Paglioli took this image on June 8, 2004, from Centro Astronomico Neil Armstrong in Salerno, Italy.

A The Greenbelt American Legion will hold its annual Memorial Day ceremony at Roosevelt Center Monday at 10 a.m. Members of the public are welcome to join the legion for a solemn remembrance and traditional service honoring American military men and women who sacrificed their lives for their country.

Rolling Thunder will make a stop of at the Greenbelt American Legion on Sunday for breakfast before heading to the Vietnam War Memorial for the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally.

If you want to take a break from it all on Memorial Day or for the 3-day weekend, consider visiting some popular destinations, that are just a day trip away from Greenbelt, MD.

Expect some delays on the Red Line this weekend. Red Line trains will operate every 10 minutes between the Shady Grove and New York Avenue stations, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, according to Metro's website .

When's the Memorial Day Service? The service will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 28 , at the College Park Veterans Memorial at the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and Greenbelt Road .

NASA's TRMM satellite passed above Hurricane Bud on May 25 at 12:49 a.m. EDT/U.S. and it saw a large area of moderate to heavy rainfall with rates of over 30mm/hr... NASA satellites are providing rainfall, temperature, pressure, visible and infrared data to forecasters as Hurricane Bud is expected to make a quick landfall in western Mexico this ... (more)

The Visible Nulling Coronagraph combines an interferometer with a coronagraph to image and characterize Jovian-size planets.