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• Opinion

The Sun missed an important space story

The Sun missed an important story about plans by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, using a drone.

• Opinion

NASA's female-spacewalk failure illustrates far-reaching problem

The fact that NASA didn't have enough spacesuits in women's sizes drives home the point that without the right tools and opportunities, you can’t leave the ground, let alone reach the moon. How many of our young women are precariously close to being shut out of the STEM fields altogether?

• Space

Emanuel 'Emil' Skrabek, spacecraft engineer, inventor of thermoelectric power source for Mars Curiosity Rover, dies

Emanuel A. “Emil” Skrabek, a Baltimore-born spacecraft engineer who co-invented a thermoelectric material that powered the Mars Curiosity Rover and other space probes, died of progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson’s disease at his home in Lutherville on March 14, his family said. He was 85.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 24, 2019

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: We feel your pain, Opportunity rover

The alleged Mars rover's final gasp, 'My battery is low and it's getting dark,' may be mostly fiction but wouldn't it be great if some alternative facts could get a pass?

• Science

An asteroid could destroy humanity like it did dinosaurs. A Hopkins team has a plan to save the world.

DART is NASA’s first mission not to explore space, but to defend against it. Researchers at Johns Hopkins plan to launch a spacecraft and smash it into an asteroid. BOOM! The impact, they hope, will bump the big space rock off course.

By Tim Prudente

Feb 4, 2019

• Science

Lights, camera, action! Tumbling space snowman in film debut

Scientists from NASA 's New Horizons mission on Tuesday released the first stitched together animation of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by humans.

• Opinion

The border wall would not cost that much

The cost to build a border all really isn't that much when compared to other things the government spends money on, including funding NASA.

• Environment

Snowman-shaped object on edge of solar system may explain how planets formed, finds Hopkins' New Horizons mission

Ultima Thule, the distant object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft explored on New Year's Day, is actually a pair of spheres that have been fused together by gravity, scientists revealed Wednesday. The Johns Hopkins-led mission could already be helping to confirm theories about how the planets formed.

By Scott Dance

Jan 2, 2019

• Science

Johns Hopkins-led New Horizons mission successfully captures data from distant Ultima Thule; first images coming Wednesday

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully captured images and data as it flew past an object nicknamed Ultima Thule early Tuesday morning, scientists confirmed. But they won't get their first close-up glimpse of the edge of the solar system until Wednesday afternoon.

By Scott Dance

Jan 1, 2019

• Science

After Pluto, Hopkins-led New Horizons mission nears an object 'beyond the known world,' Ultima Thule

Three and a half years after exploring Pluto, the New Horizons mission will reach another new frontier in the first hours of 2019. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission will fly past a Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule, a pristine remnant of the early universe.

By Scott Dance

Dec 24, 2018

• Sports

New Orioles GM Mike Elias brings former Astros analytics chief Sig Mejdal along to Baltimore

The Orioles announced Wednesday morning that Sig Mejdal will be the team’s assistant general manager, analytics.

By Jon Meoli

Nov 21, 2018

• Maryland

Nobel laureate John Mather gives Carroll residents a tour of the universe

In a far-ranging talk Wednesday on space, physics and the origin of all that is, Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Mather went from the very old and incredible small, to the infinite, and nearly back again.

• Maryland

Nobel Prize-winning NASA scientist John Mather to come to Westminster

The Westminster Astronomical Society will be hosting a special guest at its Oct. 10 club meeting — John Mather, a senior astrophysicist at the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and senior project scientist for NASA’s James Webb space telescope.

• Maryland

NASA sun expert talks solar probes, possible partnership with Carroll library

In addition to educating the group about the sun, Young — associate director for science in NASA’s Heliophysics Science Division — said NASA is also going to work on a future partnership with CCPL in efforts to get involved with Maryland libraries.

• Obituaries

Henry 'Pete' Clements, retired Air Force colonel who worked on earliest NASA missions, dies

Henry "Pete" Clements, a Baltimore Polytechnic Institute graduate who went on to become a colonel in the U.S. Air Force and associate director of NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center, died of an acute cardiac event Aug. 10 in McMahan, Texas. He was 92.

By Scott Dance

Sep 9, 2018

• Maryland

Star Points: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to get up close and personal with the sun

Last month NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, its second deep space mission in 2018. (The other was Insight, destined for a November landing on Mars.)  Parker is different from other solar missions of the past that observed the sun from far off. Parker will get up close and personal.

• Science

NASA probe operated from Johns Hopkins lab in Laurel rockets toward sun for closest look yet

Scores of Johns Hopkins University scientists watched as a NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before.

• Sports

Sports Digest (Aug. 3): With Aces no-shows, Mystics game canceled

Friday night's game between the Las Vegas Aces and the Washington Mystics at Capital One Arena was canceled, the WNBA announced.

• News

Air quality study over Chesapeake Bay seeks to understand pollution

State and federal agencies initiated a research study aimed at providing more detailed data on how and why the Chesapeake Bay seems to act as a magnet for ozone pollution.

• Opinion

The future is brighter than you think

Do you remember the future when you were a kid? The one that couldn’t come soon enough? We looked forward to the next space flight, the next scientific discovery. We heard about meals instantly cooked by sound waves, TV wrist watches, robots that vacuumed the floor, cars that steered themselves.

• Sports

Orioles notes: Mariñez, Hart added to restock bullpen; Showalter on Machado-to-Yankees speculation

The Orioles added a pair of relievers before Tuesday's game against the Yankees.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Jul 10, 2018

• Opinion

Is a Mars trip premature?

NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, the Mars One Foundation and the Mars 2117 Project all have their eyes on transporting humans to Mars. But we’re far from ready to live there — and any life forms on the red planet may not be ready for us.

• Maryland

Students place second in NASA challenge

Students place second in NASA challenge wyatt sharp landyn mansfield westminster

• Maryland

Four candidates vying for District A seat on Harford County Council

Profiles of four candidates for the District A seat on the Harford County Council, including Republicans Donna Blasdell and Paula Mullis and Democrats Dion Guthrie and Andre Johnson.

By David Anderson

Jun 8, 2018

• Sports

For astronaut from Maryland, Adam Jones' Opening Day walk-off HR was out of this world

Maryland astronaut Ricky Arnold of Bowie paid homage from space to Adam Jones' walk-off home run on Opening Day.

• Obituaries

Charles A. Harper, a chemical engineer who worked on NASA programs, dies

Charles A. Harper, a chemical engineer who worked on projects for NASA, died from complications of pneumonia Feb. 26 at Brightview Mays Chapel Ridge retirement community.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Mar 4, 2018

• Politics

Federal budget deal begins debate over bay funding, medical pot and other Maryland priorities

The federal budget agreement approved early Friday will kick off an intricate debate over several Maryland funding priorities that have been unresolved since President Donald J. Trump took office.

By John Fritze

Feb 8, 2018

• Carroll Night Out:

Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with 'Hidden Figures'

Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with the story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. This weekend, Baldwin’s Station hosts award-winning singer-songwriter Tom Kimmel.

• Maryland

Central Carroll: Bear Branch celebrates winter with 'Snow Much Fun!'

Bear Branch Nature Center will hold a fun family program called “Snow Much Fun!” on Sunday, Jan. 14, from 1 to 2 p.m. at the center, located at 310 John Owings Road, just north of the airport on Md. 97.  

• Maryland

NASA chooses Hopkins mission to Titan, Goddard-led comet probe as finalists for mid-2020s launch

NASA said Wednesday it has chosen two finalists for solar system exploration: A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory plan to visit Saturn's moon Titan, and a proposal for a comet probe that would be managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

By Scott Dance

Dec 20, 2017

• Commentary

Zirpoli: Back to the future

While world leaders met in Paris last week to discuss future global challenges, President Donald Trump held a White House ceremony to announce that the United States will return to the moon, again.

• Maryland

Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and his team win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his research on the universe’s origin and expansion.

By Sarah Gantz

Dec 3, 2017

• Space Exploration

NASA asks for help to name New Horizons' next target for exploration

Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 is a mouthful. So NASA is asking for help to name the icy body that Pluto explorer New Horizons is set to visit in just over a year.

By Scott Dance

Nov 7, 2017

• Maryland

Vigliotti: Bring the hyperloop to Carroll County

Vigliotti: Bring the hyperloop to Carroll County

• Astronomy and Astrophysics

University of Maryland astronomers strike gold — and platinum — as they watch neutron stars collide

Scientists said they’ve detected the collision of two neutron stars and confirmed that these cataclysmic events are indeed a source of gold, platinum and other heavy e

• Howard County

Astronaut Terry Virts talks space photography, science fiction and growing up in Columbia

Terry Virts may be retired from NASA, but the son of Columbia hasn’t stopped sharing his passion for space travel.

• NASA

James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed five months, to March 2019

The complexity of assembling the James Webb Space Telescope has prompted NASA to delay launch of the Hubble Space Telescope successor by five months, to March 2019.

By Scott Dance

Sep 28, 2017

• Howard County

Week-long camp sent teen to space [Glenelg/Glenwood/Dayton]

Jack Willets from Clarksville recently attended Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

• Maryland

Locals attend space camp

Savannah and Lindsay Craven attend space camp

• Maryland

As America watched Eclipse, Naval Academy grad reported for duty as astronaut in training

Naval Academy graduate Lt. Kayla Barron started astronaut training with NASA in Houston this week.

By Ian Duncan

Aug 22, 2017

• Maryland

Excited Harford County residents gather to view Monday's solar eclipse

Harford County residents found many ways to view Monday's solar eclipse, as about 1,000 gathered on the grounds of Harford Community College in anticipation of a once in a generation astronomical event.

By David Anderson

Aug 22, 2017

• Weather

In Maryland, an 80 percent eclipse is in the forecast

Eclipse watching tips for Marylanders

By Dan Rodricks

Aug 21, 2017

• Opinion

Why is NASA testing bomb-grade materials for its Mars mission?

Absent funding for a manned mission to Mars, why is NASA rushing toward a September test of a bomb-grade uranium reactor that could undermine global efforts to minimize use of such dangerous fuel?

• Harford

Harford prepares for solar eclipse

It's been about 70 years since a total solar eclipse has been seen in the United States, so astronomers are getting excited about the celestial event this

By Erika Butler

Aug 18, 2017

• Maryland

What to know before next week's solar eclipse

Marylanders won't get to view the full effect of the phenomenon- the state will only reach about 85 percent totality and the skies won't completely darken, but NASA research scientist Michael Kirk said it's still worth stepping outside for a few minutes in the afternoon to view the moon partially eclipse the sun.

By Kate Magill

Aug 16, 2017

• Weather

Have questions about the total solar eclipse? Here are answers

A total solar eclipse will be visible across the United States on Aug. 21. Here's what you need to know about it.

By Scott Dance

Aug 11, 2017

• Entertainment

Arena Players, Baltimore Rock Opera Society to collaborate on shows

Arena Players, the country's oldest continuously operating African-American community theater, and the Baltimore Rock Opera Society will co-present rock musicals in February 2018.

• Maryland

Sykesville Middle student attends summer space camp

Andrew Wilcox, of Sykesville, graduated from Space Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Official Visitor Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

• Howard County

Marriotts Ridge graduate meets astronaut in summer program [West Friendship]

"It was stressful tweaking our prototype at the last minute but truly exciting," said Garrison Ferrell, soon to be sophomore at Virginia Tech, who is studying material science engineering and bio medical engineering, of his recent trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. Those who knew him as a high school student at Marriotts Ridge are not surprised at the gusto which he applies to his activities.

• Entertainment

Artscape 2017: 10 things not to miss

10 things you absolutely need to check out at Baltimore's Artscape 2017

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jul 21, 2017