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NASA recently announced the selection of seven teams as part of its astrobiology research program, one of which will be led by APL researcher Kevin Stevenson. The team will assess the habitability of rocky exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars, building on a project started in 2020.

Five years after launch, having flown through the hottest swaths of the inner solar system, NASA's Parker Solar Probe isn't just surviving, it's thriving.

In 2024, a small rover is set to roam the Moon, collecting critical data to help scientists better understand characteristics of the lunar surface. Johns Hopkins APL recently received the rover from commercial partner Lunar Outpost. The rover is a key element of NASA's Lunar Vertex payload suite.

MaKhaila Bentil, an intern at Johns Hopkins APL, has charted a course for leadership early on in her career.

On July 3, the integrated gondola and payload for NASA's Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) shipped from Johns Hopkins APL on a long route to Antarctica.

Saturn's largest moon Titan is an ocean world with sandy dunes at its equator, but where those dunes come from and what they're made of remain mysterious. That's where NASA's Dragonfly mission will fly in to help.

Just months after a successful launch from French Guiana, the two particle-detecting instruments APL built on behalf of NASA for Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission have already displayed their sophisticated capabilities.

APL leads one of five teams that NASA recently selected to collaborate on lunar science and lunar sample analysis research, as part of the agency's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).

Embedded in the Space Exploration Sector since August, U.S. Space Force Maj. Julian Martinez has been getting an up-close look at -- and even contributing to -- Johns Hopkins APL's cross-domain expertise.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Senator Ben Cardin toured Johns Hopkins APL on June 9 and received briefings on upcoming NASA missions and other space technologies in development at the Lab.