Archived articles

Outer space

Mark Shelhamer in the zero-gravity rocket

Making space travel safer

Published Summer 2019

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and beyond, Mark Shelhamer and fellow Hopkins scientists want to ensure that future space travelers survive and thrive out there / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Space exploration

Van Allen probes prepare for final descent

Published March 27, 2019

The probes have gathered data in the hazardous radiation belts that surround Earth since 2012

Breaking up asteroids is hard to do

Published March 4, 2019

Scientists model scenarios for breaking up or interrupting the path of asteroids on a collision course with Earth

Studying the stars

Junior among 38 recipients of aerospace fellowship

Published Feb 15, 2019

A Brooke Owens Fellowship will enable Lindsey Wiser to intern this summer at the National Air and Space Museum

A blurry image of an object formed by two spheres

'New Horizons'

Mission reveals entirely new kind of world

Published Jan 2, 2019

New, detailed images of Ultima Thule shed light on the processes that built the planets billions of years ago

Physics+Astronomy

Distant planet vanishing at record speed

Published Dec 13, 2018

Hubble's discovery of a rare Neptune-sized exoplanet 96 light-years away will help astronomers understand how planets evolve

Space

IDing Mars' dust

Published Winter 2018

Planetary scientists believe they've identified the origin of the powdery dust on Mars: a formation that could be the largest known volcanic deposit in the solar system / Johns Hopkins Magazine