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Sara Beck will perform at the One World Coffeehouse in Columbia

Morgan State University continues to have problems managing the largest federal research program in its history and will face financial penalties from the organization that oversees the program, according to documents released this week.

While many of her friends spent the summer swimming or going to amusement parks, 11-year-old Asley Ventura, of Laurel, had fun participating in a space camp at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

The Goddard Space Flight Center, which builds spacecraft, instruments and technology to study the Earth, sun, solar system and universe, is working to prepare future aerospace engineers and scientists, said Dean Kern, the institution's deputy director for education.

University's research on behalf of NASA is wasteful and its lack of accountability appalling

Morgan State University was warned earlier this year that it had "serious performance and financial deficiencies" in its administration of the largest federal research program in its history.

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger says satellite export regulation reform is overdue.

The nation's space exploration program had already captivated 12-year-old Howard Weinstein's imagination when the original episodes of "Star Trek" began airing in 1966.

When a shark tagged off the Eastern Shore as part of a marine-life tracking project took off on an unprecedented monthlong journey, researchers quite literally watched its every move.

Radio personality Samuel Michael Anderson -- known on-air as "Mike Roberts" -- died Feb. 17 from cancer. He was 54.

Social-media star and 'Star Trek' alum George Takei will bring some sci-fi to BSO.

Thirty years ago, U.S. colleges and universities awarded 37 percent of computer science bachelor's degrees to women. Today, when that number should be approaching 50 percent, it has actually been cut in half. Women in the United States now receive just 18 percent of computer science bachelor's degrees, and less than a quarter of professionals in computing are women.

Anti-Russian prejudice wins the gold

Pamela Audrey Hall, a former radio station program director who was active nationally in jazz and contemporary gospel music circles, died of cancer Jan. 21 at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 57 and lived in Ellicott City.

State officials announced a partnership with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Monday that aims to attract and grow companies that can help support space missions or adapt NASA technology for other commercial purposes.

Lynda Ames, a retired jewelry designer who later headed medical and other charity events, died of cancer Nov. 11 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 74 and lived in Owings Mills.

The film 'Gravity' should remind us of how far the president has allowed us to fall behind China when it comes to human spaceflight.

With the launch of two high-profile rocket missions from Wallops Island this month, Maryland's future as a gateway to outer space looks bright

After 36 years of space exploration and months of heated argument among scientists, NASA officials confirmed Thursday that Voyager 1 had indeed crossed into interstellar space more than a year ago.

American inconsistency on the use of chemical weapons makes it difficult to convince a bunch of teenagers — much less Congress — that we must act.

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who was a member of the first American company of "Porgy and Bess" to tour the world, died May 16.

No. 1-ranked and undefeated Maryland had six student-athletes selected to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Region Team, announced Tuesday.

The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum has been taking the Glenn L. Martin Company rocket age history on the road to Harford County

Crimes reported in Towson, Cockeysville, Timonium, Lutherville April 12-20.

We used to live in an age where we vigorously debated issues, but no longer.

After recently releasing her first mixtape, the 92Q DJ is about to launch a motivational tour in city schools

Mountain Christian Church is considering opening a satellite site at a vacant Edgewood strip mall known as the Ames Shopping Center, several community leaders confirmed.

Thanks to the addition of a new $650,000 mobile command unit and 10 personal police officer cameras, it's hard to accuse the Laurel Police Department of lagging behind when it comes to the latest technology.

Sentencing murders to prison instead of death is cruel to victims and their families

Former Orioles vice president Jim Duquette donates kidney to his daughter

When students in River Hill High School's Advanced Computer Science classes entered a worldwide high school robotics competition last year that involved programming International Space Station satellites, they figured their chances of winning were mathematically improbable.

A little-noticed provision included in a $633 billion military spending bill would end a decade-old battle over whether to ease export restrictions on U.S. satellite technology.

The country's young ruler, Kim Jong Un, replays the intimidation and threats of his late father

The first images of Earth as seen from space, appearing as a swirly blue marble, were groundbreaking. Now NASA and NOAA have published photos of Earth by night using infrared imaging technology via satellite.

A team of doctoral students and scientists are fine-tuning a rocket payload that will carry a telescope 250 miles above the earth's atmosphere for a clear glimpse of a nearby galaxy.

CNN announced Thursday morning that Jeff Zucker is its new president worldwide.

NASA announced plans Tuesday to launch a new mission to Mars, passing over two proposals from Maryland institutions.

After a three-week hiatus during the Olympic games, or as I like to call them, "Planet Earth's Got Talent," the seventh season of "America's Got Talent" returns tonight.

If NASA can stick its 'terror' landing on Mars, can't the next generation of U.S. students be properly educated in math and science?

All-Star games are not a spectacle anymore. Across the board, in every sport, All-Star games are starting to lose their luster, the interest of wanting to see glorified exhibition games slowly waning.