Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Master Inventor Hoffman Turns Chemistry Into Capability

Christopher Hoffman has been recognized as a Johns Hopkins APL Master Inventor, a distinction earned through a career spent ...
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Stephanie Menten

Dr. Stephanie Menten is a planetary scientist interested in understanding interior–surface exchange and surface processes on solid bodies in our solar system. Her research focuses on investigating ...
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DART Forward: Five Papers Shed New Light on Asteroids From World’s First Planetary Defense Test

In the months that followed NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid moonlet, the science team verified that kinetic ...
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AI Reveals New Way to Strengthen Titanium Alloys and Speed Up Manufacturing

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
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Paulhamus, Rodriguez Named Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Chairs

The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering recently selected two Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) staff members as Engineering for Professionals (EP) program chairs. Bart Paulhamus, ...
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Dragonfly Mission Confirmed for 2028 Launch to Saturn’s Moon Titan

NASA has confirmed its revolutionary Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision, announced April 16, allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, ...
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A New Path to Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

Controlling a computer with your mind was once pure science fiction, but it’s now plausible thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Today’s BCI systems have achieved extraordinary ...
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U.S. Space Force to Partner With Johns Hopkins on Professional Development

The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will partner with the U.S. Space Force on the professional development of top candidates in the USSF leadership corps, ...
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere in ‘Once Impossible’ Detail

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...
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Parker Solar Probe Captures First Complete View of Venus Orbital Dust Ring

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first complete view of Venus’ dust ring, a band of particles that stretches for the entirety of the planet’s path around the Sun. The new images, published April ...
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Johns Hopkins APL Sends Europa Clipper Its Narrow-Angle Camera

After years of work to design, build and run tests, scientists and engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, bid farewell to the Europa Imaging System (EIS) ...