Director of NASA hopes for quick return to flight
With Discovery safely back on Earth, NASA's engineers will turn their full attention to figuring out why a menacing hunk of foam insulation broke away from the shuttle's external fuel...
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Solar flares could force shuttle crew to take cover on space station
Space weather forecasters are watching the development of a large spot on the sun - a region on the solar surface with a potential to hurl dangerous solar particles toward...
Workers celebrate ‘return to flight’
GREENBELT -- It happened again. A NASA space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral yesterday morning, and tears pooled in Bruce Schneck's eyes. "Every time we fly, I well up,"...
Fears of flu pandemic spurring preparations
They gathered around a hotel conference table in Howard County, planning for what might be Maryland's worst public health crisis. The public health and safety experts spun a shocking scenario...
At funeral, mourners stunned by violent death
Raymond K. Smoot was mourned yesterday as an old friend and family member whose life should have been lived better than it was, but who did not deserve to die...
‘Cicada cash’ rumor squashed
The buzz began last week, when word spread that Johns Hopkins University was paying $100 -- or maybe even $1,000 -- for rare blue-eyed cicadas. Scores of callers hoping to...
Ick! ‘Looks like a bumper crop’
They're gross. They're loud. They're bumbling. And, come mid-May, they're back. With uncanny mathematical precision, and with sex on their minds, millions of red-eyed cicadas that last saw daylight in...
Water taxi victim, 8, released from hospital
Sarah Bentrem, the 8-year-old Virginia girl who nearly died in the March 6 Seaport Taxi accident that killed five other passengers, has been released from the hospital in Baltimore. She...
Divers recover bodies of 2 victims
Divers working in bitter winds and frigid water yesterday recovered the bodies of two of the three tourists lost nine days ago when the Seaport Taxi Lady D capsized in...
Isabel may be gone, but need for caution lingers, scientists say
While coastal residents from Maryland to the Carolinas pick up the wreckage from Isabel, meteorologists are warning East Coast communities to prepare for busier hurricane seasons for the next 10...