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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), designed, built and operated by Johns Hopkins APL, was recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with the organization's newest award -- the AIAA Award for Aerospace Excellence -- on May 18.

A first-of-its-kind particle instrument meant to characterize the forces that cause radiation to rain down into Earth’s atmosphere safely arrived in Montana earlier this week. Developed at APL as part of NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss CubeSat mission, the compact detector marks an unmatched feat in instrument design.

In an unparalleled analytical effort, more than 1,000 undergraduate students helped physicists address an outstanding mystery about the Sun’s atmosphere and may have upended a popularly held theory in the process.

A new study documenting Webb’s recent observations of a rocky planet around 26 light-years away have caused a waterlogged mystery that’s left researchers uncertain whether they made a groundbreaking discovery or not.

APL's Olivier Barnouin and Terik Daly are joining the Science Working Team for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Martian Moons eXploration mission as NASA-supported participating scientists.

Ed Reynolds, a program manager in APL's Space Exploration Sector, has earned a place on the 2023 TIME 100 list of most influential people. Each year, TIME selects artists, innovators, leaders, icons and pioneers from around the globe who are changing the world. Reynolds was recognized for his role leading NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever demonstration of asteroid deflection technology

APL scientists and engineers bid farewell last week to the Europa Imaging System Narrow-Angle Camera, the last of the Laboratory's contributions to NASA's Europa Clipper mission. The groundbreaking instrument arrived in California on April 3 for tests and spacecraft integration.

From seeing the invisible to catching particles at near-light speed, the parts APL scientists and engineers built for Europe's Jupiter mission set to launch this Thursday are pretty sweet. Dive into the juicy details and see how these instruments will squeeze out new insights on Jupiter and its icy moons.

The team leading NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) successfully cleared its critical design review late last month, marking a major milestone for the project and keeping it on pace for its launch scheduled for next year.

Before it can fly its revolutionary rotorcraft over the organic dunes of Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly team needs to navigate several independent reviews to demonstrate the flight project is on track. Led by Johns Hopkins APL, the team recently passed the first of those evaluations, the Preliminary Design Review.