Archived articles

Nasa
To boldly go?
Great unknowns
Published April 3, 2014
Ethics experts give NASA guidance on health standards for high-risk space flights
Space shows its stripes
Published March 19, 2014
NASA spacecraft discover distinct 'zebra stripe' pattern on near-Earth radiation belt
Space
APL staffer selected for NASA astronaut training
Published June 25, 2013
Christina Hammock created complex scientific instruments bound for space. Now, as one of eight new NASA astronaut candidates, she has her own chance to explore the stars.
Voyager 1
Those old models? Wrong
Published Spring 2013
Thirty-five years into a four-year mission, Voyager is still making surprising discoveries / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Close encounters
Published Feb 13, 2013
An asteroid flyby has scientists thinking about how to deal with a hypothetical future asteroid hurtling toward Earth
APL's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes blast off
Published Aug 30, 2012
Satellites will investigate hazardous regions of near-Earth space known as Van Allen belts / Applied Physics Laboratory