NASA’s Dragonfly mission has reached another development milestone, with structural testing of the rotorcraft lander now ...

At the single biggest sporting event in U.S. history, drawing 5 million international visitors to 11 U.S. cities for 78 ...

After a three-and-a-half-month journey, NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has finally reached its destination, a strategic location between the Sun and Earth where it will ...

For Christopher Hoffman, an organic chemist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, innovation often starts with a simple question: What can chemistry do to solve ...

APL leads NASA’s Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets, or CHAMPs — an interdisciplinary research team supporting NASA’s pursuit to understand how life began and whether it has ...

Over the past decade, additive manufacturing has emerged as a disruptive force in advanced defense manufacturing. However, skepticism about its reliability — particularly for building crucial military ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with ...

Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts — whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices — has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...

APL’s GenWar Sim capability integrates large language models (LLMs) with the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM)—making high-fidelity simulations accessible to users ...

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 the months that followed NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid moonlet, the science team verified that kinetic ...