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Dreaming of the Stars

Isabella Dimopoulos February 9, 2024

Genealogist Jessica Watkins, is a part of the few who made it. In late April 2022, Watkins embarked on a historic journey and became the first black woman in history to be a part of a space mission that...

Dreaming of The Stars

Isabella Dimopoulos February 1, 2024

Mae C. Jemison has reached the stars in everything she has done. On September 12, 1992, her dreams became a reality, and she became the first African American woman to travel to space.  She was born...

	
The green of St. Patrick's Day in the Mid-Atlantic is covered by white snow as a result of a late winter snow storm. The covering of the green was captured in a movie made at NASA using NOAA's GOES satellite data. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Public Domain)

Tornadoes break out across US South

Abbey Rogers, Photography Editor March 26, 2021

TheBroadcaster · Tornadoes break out across US South Intense tornadoes and extreme storms tore through parts of the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic from March 17th to March 18th, 2021. The storms...

Climate Change is Real

Allyson Lin, Reporter February 1, 2021

In Greenland and Antarctica, NASA has proven that Greenland has lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016. Antarctica had lost about 127 billion tons per year during the...

Saturn’s Rings Are Vanishing

Abbey Rogers and Abbey Massage January 29, 2019

A NASA study shows Saturn’s rings are disappearing at an alarming rate. Ice from the rings is being pulled into the magnetic field and over time will fall into the planet. This phenomenon, called ring...

This undated file artist's rendering shows one of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft. NASA says the long-running Voyager 1 spacecraft hurtling toward the edge of the solar system has reached another milestone. Since 2004, the unmanned probe has been exploring a region of space where the solar wind slows abruptly and crashes into the thin gas between stars. NASA said Monday that recent readings show the solar wind has slowed to zero, meaning the spacecraft is getting ever closer to the solar system's edge. (AP Photo/NASA, File)

Voyager 1 Thrusters Fired After 37 Years

Anna Levin, Reporter January 3, 2018

The first man-made object ever to make it to interstellar space has been dormant for 37 years, until now. For the last 40 years, the Voyager 1 has been floating through space, communicating information...

First stage of a Jason3 rocket approaches center of landing droneship in Pacific Ocean.  Space X is one of several companies that are renewing a space races; this time between companies rather than countries.  (SpaceX)

Remembering the Space Race

Alex Elchev, Reporter April 28, 2017

The United States may have landed a man on the moon nearly 50 years ago, but the space race has stayed interesting ever since. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space on October 4th, 1957,...

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