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Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.

Five years after CIRCUIT’s pilot, the intensive undergraduate program is welcoming more students than ever from around the globe to assist Johns Hopkins APL staff members on a variety of research work.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is set to make history next Monday as the world’s first planetary defense test, and the spacecraft’s own “mini-photographer” LICIACube (short for Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids) is warming up to capture the event.

After capturing images of one of the brightest stars in Earth’s night sky, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft turned its camera toward another eye-catching spectacle: Jupiter and its four largest moons.

James Miller and David Van Wie have been appointed to the Defense Science Board, a federal advisory committee chartered to provide Department of Defense leadership with independent advice and recommendations on matters related to strengthening national security.

A Johns Hopkins APL and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine team earned a best paper award at the 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, for documenting how they developed an interactive microseminar to teach neuroscience, robotics and computer science to high school students.

The small satellite companion aboard NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully separated from the main spacecraft, popping out of its spring-loaded box to capture valuable information about DART’s impact into an asteroid that will inform future planetary defense efforts.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos.

Through a pilot program run in partnership between NASA’s Glenn Research Center and APL, students worked virtually with NASA experts to develop concepts for new science missions that require nuclear power systems to reach the deep solar system.