Greenbelt News

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.

GREENBELT, Maryland , June 18, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 pm EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Greenbelt residents Patrick and Cornelia Kennedy pose with Massimo Mazziotti of Pasta Plus on Monday.

Federal prosecutors say a Hyattsville man has been sentenced to five years in prison for setting a federal probation office on fire.

John A. Gans, PharmD, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer for the American Pharmacists Association has been selected as a recipient of the Food and Drug Administration's Commissioner's Special Citation Award.

Some researchers believe that the solar cycle influences global climate changes.

A St. Mary's County fish wholesaler who authorities say is at the heart of the largest striped-bass poaching case in Chesapeake Bay history pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to falsifying Maryland catch reports and interstate trafficking in illegal fish.

Greenbelt, Md., Jun 12, 2009 / 06:30 am .- The Acting Administrator of NASA and the Equal Opportunity Programs Office at Goddard Space Flight Center have encouraged agency employees to take part in 'LGBT Pride Month,' leading to criticism that the action takes the space agency 'completely off-mission' and promotes homosexual activism.