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See International Space Station, and a rocket bound for it, in Monday night sky

June 30, 2019 at 1:31 a.m.

The International Space Station will pass over the region Monday evening, and it's likely your last chance to see a flyover while Cockeysville native Reid Wiseman is aboard the satellite....

Maryland has designated three hospitals in the state to care for any Ebola patients identified here.

Hopkins, UM designated to care for Ebola patients in Maryland as N.Y. case emerges

July 1, 2019 at 7:15 a.m.

Maryland health officials designated three hospitals to receive Ebola patients in Maryland — including Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore — changing course from...

Maryland to monitor travelers from West Africa for Ebola symptoms as CDC increases surveillance

August 19, 2019 at 2:53 a.m.

The CDC is ordering Maryland health officials to monitor all travelers entering the state from three West African countries for signs of Ebola as the federal agency is pressed to...

NASA Messenger mission captures photos of polar ice on Mercury

June 29, 2019 at 10:29 p.m.

A spacecraft circling Mercury has captured the first photos of ice deep inside polar craters on the planet, strengthening confirmation that such pockets exist and helping to further explain how...

Author Tom Clancy died Oct. 1 at age 66 in Baltimore.

Tom Clancy’s $82M estate focus of legal tussle between widow, lawyer

June 30, 2019 at 2:15 p.m.

The widow of Baltimore author Tom Clancy is battling her late husband's lawyer over $6 million in taxes she says she shouldn't owe on her share of Clancy's $82 million...

Mark Kochte, left, payload operation specialist, and Chris Regan, who works in mission operations, work in the mission operations center on NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which is in orbit around the planet Mercury. The spacecraft is managed at this operations center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.

As Messenger nears crash landing on Mercury, scientists racing to collect best data yet

June 28, 2019 at 11:10 p.m.

NASA's Messenger spacecraft has swung around its namesake planet for three years, beaming observations of Mercury back to Earth, but next March it will smash into the cratered surface it...

Ebola outbreak could spur action for Md. scientists working on vaccine

August 19, 2019 at 2:48 a.m.

Public health officials have just one tactic to battle the unrelenting Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa — quarantine — but as the disease continues to spread, scientists in Maryland...

Lockdown lifted, no crime suspected at Stevenson

July 1, 2019 at 3:16 p.m.

Stevenson University's Owings Mills campus was locked down for three hours Monday afternoon as authorities investigated reports of an armed person on campus that turned out to have been sparked...

Vince Draper and Jeff McDuffie are Systems Operations Center Technicians at the John's Hopkins Systems Operations Center in Mount Washington. They can monitor physical and environmental conditions at multiple Hopkins sites thoughout the city.

Hacking incidents prompt universities to rethink balance between openness, security

May 30, 2019 at 6:13 p.m.

In the two weeks between recent revelations that hackers stole data on students, alumni and faculty from the University of Maryland, College Park and the Johns Hopkins University, nearly 360,000...

Tiny satellites could revolutionize earth, space science research

August 19, 2019 at 2:35 a.m.

The first U.S.-launched satellite, Explorer I, was 6 feet long and weighed 30 pounds, and it led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt that surrounds Earth. More...

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