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Close up of the sun
Space exploration
Everything under the sun
Published Spring 2025
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a spacecraft built by scientists and engineers at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The Parker Solar Probe floats in front of the sun, whose size takes up the rest of the image.
Space exploration
A record-setting flyby for Parker Solar Probe
Published Jan 2, 2025
NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever come to a star
An illustration of the moon with text overlaid that reads "Exploration," "Dreams," "Ambition," "Hope," and "Innovation."
Space exploration
A bigger, bolder moon shot
Published Spring 2024
NASA's ambitious moon return involves plans to build a long-term human presence in the solar system / Johns Hopkins Magazine
an astronaut floats in space attached to a heart
Sending heart tissue to space
Published Summer 2023
Johns Hopkins scientists study aging and heart disease by sending heart "tissue-on-a-chip" to space / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Cupola porthole on the International space station
Space safety
Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon to co-lead new NASA institute
Published March 16, 2023
The JHU-CMU team is spearheading a Space Technology Research Institute to prevent failure in additively manufactured spaceflight materials
Tissue chambers loaded into a plate habitat designed for research aboard the International Space Station
Biomedical engineering
Heart tissue heads to space
Published March 15, 2023
The experiments on the International Space Station aim to inform researchers' understanding and treatment of age-related cardiac problems
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
Comet flies across the sky
Space science
Analysis points to secret source of lunar ice
Published Feb 11, 2022
An analysis of debris blasted away from the moon's surface in 2009 uncovers layers of lunar—and Earth—history
Andre Douglas
Chasing space
Published Feb 2, 2022
Whiting School alum and former APL employee Andre Douglas is one of 10 astronaut candidates who recently began training with NASA, the culmination of a life spent dreaming of the stars
Illustration of Europa's icy oceans
From the archives
Otherworldly oceans
Published Summer 2021
Researchers are almost certain a liquid ocean is hidden beneath the surface of one of Jupiter's moons. The Europa Clipper mission, set to launch this month, will help determine whether it has all the ingredients necessary for life. / Johns Hopkins Magazine