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Space

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
Idea: Smashing asteroids
Published Spring 2013
If a large asteroid were headed toward Earth, how would we defend ourselves? APL's Andy Cheng has an idea / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Belt expansion
Published Feb 28, 2013
APL-built spacecraft discover previously undetected third radiation belt around Earth / Applied Physics Laboratory
About space
Cosmic coincidence
Published Feb 15, 2013
Meteor that entered atmosphere over Russia likely unrelated to giant asteroid flyby, Johns Hopkins expert says
Close encounters
Published Feb 13, 2013
An asteroid flyby has scientists thinking about how to deal with a hypothetical future asteroid hurtling toward Earth
Next stop: Interstellar space
Published Dec 3, 2012
APL scientists say NASA's Voyager has encountered 'magnetic highway' on outskirts of solar system / Applied Physics Laboratory
Mercury findings
Published Nov 29, 2012
Messenger observations point to existence of water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters / Applied Physics Laboratory
Far out science
Published Oct 24, 2012 Video
What happens to a glass of water in space? Watch and learn.
Universal sculpture
Published Oct 4, 2012
JHU cosmologists receive Temple Foundation award for work on 'origami universe'
ROCKET MEN
Ready to launch
Published Oct 2012 Video Photos
Rocket constructed in Homewood campus basement will be blasted into space this fall / Gazette