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Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, wearing a blue shirt and black athletic pants, performs a deadlift exercise using the advanced Resistive Exercise Device (aRED) aboard the International Space Station. The aRED machine, equipped with metal bars and vacuum cylinders, provides resistance training to help astronauts maintain muscle and bone strength in microgravity. The surrounding area is filled with white padded walls, equipment, and storage bags, characteristic of the ISS interior.
Space exploration
Workouts in space
Published Feb 13, 2025
Jumping workouts could help astronauts on the moon and Mars, study in mice suggests
Heart tissues within one of the launch-ready chambers, held by two hands.
Biomedical Engineering
Low gravity in space travel disrupts normal rhythm in heart muscle cells
Published Sept 23, 2024
New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine find that heart tissues aboard the space station beat about half as strong as on Earth
Starliner docked at the ISS
Q+A
No rescue needed for Starliner, says Johns Hopkins space expert
Published July 5, 2024
Johns Hopkins engineer Patrick Binning clarifies misconceptions about 'stranded' astronauts, emphasizes importance of data collection
Students on the DAVINCI+ team with their professor, who holds a phone so NASA engineers can participate via Zoom
Space science
Undergrads help NASA uncover the mysteries of Venus
Published April 8, 2024
Students are learning the ins and outs of the Venusian atmosphere and building a sensor for NASA's DAVINCI mission, thanks to the vision of APL planetary scientist Noam Izenberg and a small team of faculty experts
Illustration of a fast blazing asteroid meteor over Earth
Planetary science
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Published March 7, 2024
The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from a 2014 meteor fireball
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
Two women in military uniforms pose in front of a military jet
U.S. Space Force partnership will prepare leaders for new challenges
Published Oct 26, 2022
Space Force officers, known as Guardians, will be invited to join an interdisciplinary program offering training in international policy with electives in space-focused engineering
A close-up view of the star Earendel
Outer space
Stars align for Hubble discovery
Published March 30, 2022
A Johns Hopkins astronomer discovered a new star, which breaks the record for the farthest star ever observed