Greenbelt News

NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory , arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

A federal jury convicted Derrick Wenzell Simmons, age 36, of Greenbelt, Maryland, today being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, July 10, 2009 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center - Comments On June 27, 2009, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space during a spectacular launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

If a Metro train operator gets a one-week suspension for texting, what is the penalty for sleeping? Starting Monday, the answer will be "termination." Sponsored Topics: Text messaging - Railroad engineer - Metro International - Rail - Metrolink

Is it time to consider a ban on alcohol at Greenbelt Lake? That's a question being raised by Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn after a series of calls received by his office over the July Fourth weekend.

In 1981 I was involved in a very serious car accident that broke my right femur and caused some internal bleeding.

In an unlikely career twist, his research morphed into the study of a critical, if overlooked, subplot in the story of climate change.

Route 1 development and cost-cutting were among the issues on the minds of College Park officials when they attended the Maryland Municipal League's annual convention, held Sunday to Wednesday in Ocean City.

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23.

GREENBELT - A U.S. District judge has sentenced a Rockville man to more than three years in prison for conspiring to transport at least 100 women to Maryland to have them work as prostitutes.

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, NASA may have found the long-lost original Apollo 11 videotapes.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Monday, June 29, 2009 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center - Comments Since NASA researchers began assembling the Aerosol Robotic Network in the 1990s, the worldwide network of ground-based aerosol sensors has grown to 400 sites across seven continents.

If you've been telling yourself you're not old yet, you fit right in. No matter what their chronological age, most people say that they aren't yet "old" - and that they feel younger than their birthday count, according to a new nationally representative survey of almost 3,000 adults by the Pew Research Center.

WASHINGTON, June 27 DC-NASA-Launchs-GOESO WASHINGTON , June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space today after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida .

Under a hot sun, hundreds of artists and visitors on Wednesday weaved through venues featuring everything from barbershop stories to clog-making for the opening of the 43rd annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall .

The former owner of Rosecroft Raceway says he has reached a tentative deal to buy back the bankrupt harness track in Prince George's County.

After a four-and-a-half-day journey from Earth, a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully entered orbit around the moon, NASA said Tuesday.

Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, the other will insert itself into lunar orbit to begin mapping the moon's surface.

The Essex County Greenbelt recently completed its purchase of the Hiller Trust property, the organization announced recently.

Prince George's County police said yesterday they think the sniper suspects may be linked to yet another unsolved shooting -- this one of a liquor store clerk in Clinton on Sept.