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Credit: Jeanette Epps, who spent a record 235 days in space in 2024, is the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland's graduation ceremony on Thursday, May 21, 2026. (WTOP/John Domen)

U.Md. students to get commencement speech from someone with out-of-this-world experience

Heat wave empties roads and markets in north India as some farmers turn to nighttime work

Neptune’s mysterious moon Nereid may be an original, study shows

5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Peru, damaging buildings and injuring 27

Researchers believe they’ve discovered lost remains of Maryland’s second governor from 1651

Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil