Johns Hopkins APL has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026, ranking 13 in the Security category ...

Paul Wienhold, a materials and process engineer, has received the 2025 Society for the Advancement of Material and Process ...

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the Sun than any other human-made object, is now on display at the Smithsonian ...

Climate tipping points have become a source of growing concern, particularly among policymakers and scientists. They are critical thresholds that, once crossed, could “tip” a natural climate system ...

Nine years ago this week, NASA’s Van Allen Probes launched on a mission to fly through and study Earth’s ring current and radiation belts — rings of charged particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field ...

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...

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 ...

NASA has selected a group of scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and several other institutions from the U.S., United Kingdom and Canada to provide their expertise in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is dazzling scientists yet again, this time not with stunning images of the cosmos but instead with the first comprehensive list of molecular ingredients in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frontier-X, a breakthrough space communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was selected as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of ...