Press Release
May 5, 2020
First Exoplanet Study from Johns Hopkins APL Leaves Researchers Stumped
In the first exoplanet study from Johns Hopkins APL, researchers found that the cloudy atmosphere of WASP-79b, an exoplanet from a solar system nearly 800 light-years away, is almost transparent to blue light, leaving it with a yellow-tinged sky.
Press Release
May 4, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Delivers Prototype Defense Planning and Assessment Tool to USS Bunker Hill
In January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) — part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group — left San Diego for a scheduled Indo-Pacific deployment. Along with 6,000 service members spread between several ships is a new experimental unit designed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory that could one day change the way the Navy plans for defeating anti-ship missile attacks.
Press Release
Apr 28, 2020
Fast Company Recognizes Johns Hopkins APL’s Work Among ‘World Changing Ideas’
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was honored in Fast Company magazine’s 2020 World Changing Ideas awards, with four different Laboratory projects earning nods as finalists.
Press Release
Apr 24, 2020
Tech Students Shoot for the Stars in Outreach Program Led by Johns Hopkins APL
With the aid of their teachers and volunteer machinists from APL, students get a rare chance to build space mission hardware in their own classrooms.
Press Release
Apr 20, 2020
Interstellar Comet Borisov Likely Comes From a Red Dwarf Star, Researchers Say
Based on its orbit around the Sun, scientists knew Borisov was an interloper from another solar system, the second one ever known to pass through our neighborhood. But it looked very much like any other comet they had seen — until now.
Press Release
Apr 20, 2020
“Lucky” MESSENGER Data Upends Long-Held Idea About Venus’ Atmosphere
A Johns Hopkins APL team reports that data fortuitously collected by MESSENGER reveals a sudden rise in nitrogen concentrations at about 30 miles above Venus’ surface, demonstrating the planet’s atmosphere isn’t uniformly mixed, as expected.
Press Release
Apr 15, 2020
Two Ventilator Concepts Emerge From Design Thinking Workshop Led by Johns Hopkins APL
Experts from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise gathered virtually on March 25 to discuss ways to address the projected shortfall in ventilators required during an anticipated surge of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Press Release
Apr 15, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL to Host Virtual Event Exploring ‘Operationalizing’ Artificial Intelligence in Health
This event will bring together partners in the community — federal government, Department of Defense, academia and industry — to explore the role of AI in real-world health care settings.
Press Release
Apr 13, 2020
NASA’s First Planetary Defense Mission Readies for Integration and Testing at APL
The Johns Hopkins APL team leading NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was recently given the green light to begin the mission’s next critical phase.
Press Release
Apr 8, 2020
New Science Center Will Transform Understanding, Prediction of Space Weather
An APL-led mission to explore electric currents in Earth’s atmosphere that link the aurora to our planet’s magnetosphere has been selected by NASA to move forward to a scheduled launch in 2024.