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Awards+Honors

DART mission lead named to TIME100

Published April 13, 2023

Ed Reynolds, a program manager at APL, led a team of hundreds in successful demonstration of asteroid redirection technology

The curve of an exoplanet is illuminated by a distant star

Space exploration

JWST detects distant exoplanet

Published Jan 11, 2023

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins APL confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star roughly 41 light-years away

Planetary defense

Smashing success: DART alters asteroid's orbit

Published Oct 11, 2022

The history-making NASA mission, operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, shows potential for future missions to protect Earth from asteroids

A gray, rocky ball - the asteroid Dimorphos - is seen against the black backdrop in space in this image transmitted by NASA's DART spacecraft

Planetary defense

Bull's-eye! NASA's DART spacecraft slams into asteroid

Published Sept 26, 2022

Collision with asteroid Dimorphos demonstrates a mitigation technique that could be used in the future to deflect asteroids that pose a threat to Earth

An illustration of a spacecraft flying into an asteroid

Bracing for impact

DART spacecraft prepares for asteroid collision

Published Sept 14, 2022

The proof-of-concept mission managed by APL aims to demonstrate how a spacecraft can be used to deflect an asteroid that poses a threat to Earth, should one ever be discovered