Greenbelt News

It's relative. Astronomers have been measuring spin precession in an eclipsing pair of pulsars.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Source: Goddard Space Flight Center - Comments NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, located in Greenbelt, Maryland, has the lead on many exciting space missions ...

Solar activity, the source of all space weather, affects Earth's magnetosphere and upper atmosphere.

When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA probes reveal.

This is a still image from a computer artist's animation of hot iron gas riding upon a wave in spacetime around a black hole.

Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in Michigan and three other states for alleged torture.

SIXTH DEFENDANT IN D.C. PROPERTY TAX REFUND FRAUD SCHEME PLEADS GUILTY Over $9 Million in Fraudulent District of Columbia Checks Deposited Into Account of Former IRS Employee Robert O. Steven; Used Funds to ...

Federal prosecutors in Greenbelt said a career drug trafficker has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Track maintenance and rail car testing will affect all Metro lines this weekend, as cars are forced to use one track for inbound and outbound trains.

Deep sea fish will emerge to sit atop the waves of Greenbelt Lake this Fourth of July as part of Greenbelt's Independence Day activities.

WHAT Davao has in nature, Manila makes up for its restaurants. With the smorgasbord of restos and the burgeoning rise of foodies, there is never a lack of new dishes to try in this polluted hubbub of a city.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says a Hyattsville man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for keeping a 14-year-old girl from Mexico as a prostitute and sex slave.

NASA has selected two science proposals to be the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.

A 30-year-old Wheaton man, who allegedly ran a branch of the notorious MS-13 street gang in Prince George's County, was given a life sentence June 9 on racketeering, murder, witness tampering and numerous other ...

As Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County vie for a D.C. United soccer stadium to be built in their respective areas, Greenbelt officials spoke out last week against the stadium being included in a new ...

Former Prince George's County schools chief Andre Hornsby is back in court for his retrial on corruption charges.

June 17, 2008 Presidio Networked Solutions , a systems integrator based in Greenbelt, Md., has formed a business unit that specializes in network-management services .

Eight people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with what federal prosecutors in Maryland describe as a 'massive mortgage fraud scheme' by a Prince George's County company that promised to help homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes, the state U.S. attorney's office announced today.

The indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt says that representatives of Lanham-based Metropolitan Money Store Corp. tricked people into signing over the titles of their homes to the company, ran up equity loans and pocketed the money they had told homeowners would be put into escrow to pay their bills.

The Prince George's County Public Schools will reshuffle almost 300 teaching positions next academic year because of budget cuts, and some parents think the changes could negatively impact schools.

When Tropical Storm Gaston hit Richmond, Va., in August 2004, its notable abundance of small and mid-sized raindrops created torrential rains that led to unexpected flash flooding throughout the city and its ...