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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As the world became aware of the shortage of personal protective equipment needed by health care workers on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19, it’s no surprise that many engineers and scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory mobilized immediately.

John Slotwinski, a senior national security analyst at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was given the Award of Merit and title of Fellow by ASTM International.

Leaders of the International Planetary Probe Workshop awarded Ralph D. Lorenz the Alvin Seiff Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions to planetary science and commitment to mentoring the next generation of solar system explorers.