A team of researchers from APL and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is developing next-generation brain organoid platforms to better understand the effects of mild blast-induced ...

Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have a global magnetic field. Instead, it has local patches of magnetized crustal rocks, called “magnetic anomalies.” Lunar Vertex will be the first mission to find out ...

Designing, building, and applying new technologies—especially those that include artificial intelligence—can be a double-edged sword: powerful and enabling on the one hand, but potentially biased and ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL, in collaboration with Samsung Research, have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today’s commercial systems. Driven ...

NASA’s Dragonfly, the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world, has passed its Critical Design Review. Led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...

In five new Nature Communications papers, the team behind NASA’s successful DART mission sheds new light on the structure and origins of the asteroid system encountered in 2022. Researchers from Johns ...

Dr. Morgan M. Trexler is the research program area manager in APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Mission Area. In this capacity, she oversees the strategy, execution, and transition of ...

Johns Hopkins APL’s 13 mission areas are organized and equipped to meet unique sponsor and mission needs, providing them with dedicated, on-call engineering, scientific, and analytical expertise. Our ...

Dr. Rachel Klima is a planetary geologist whose research focuses on planetary spectroscopy—in particular, using reflected light to characterize the mineralogy of solid surfaces in the solar system.

NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan has been confirmed, enabling the mission to progress through its final design and eventual construction and testing. The game-changing mission, equipped ...

Dr. Andrew Rivkin is a planetary astronomer whose research centers on the study of asteroids for scientific and planetary defense purposes. As investigation lead for the Double Asteroid Redirection ...

NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE), scheduled to launch in late 2024, will image the magnetic fingerprint of the electrical currents that flow in the upper atmosphere and between Earth ...