Scientists Sam Yee and Scott Murchie were jointly awarded APL’s Lifetime Publication Achievement Award for work that has ...

APL is addressing one of the Navy’s most persistent logistical challenges: reloading vertical launching systems (VLSs) at sea. Traditionally, Navy destroyers must return to port to reload their VLS ...

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Sailors aboard the USS Bataan turned the additive manufacturing at sea concept into reality after successfully fabricating and installing a stainless steel sprayer plate to repair the USS Bataan’s ...

Brian Geesaman is the mission area executive for Precision Strike at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is responsible for the mission area’s vision and strategy and for overseeing the ...

The Krimigis Postdoctoral Scholars Program at APL provides extraordinary scientists with the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge projects designed to advance the future of space science. When you ...

When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered planet Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar ...

Join us for the 2026 Science & Technology Showcase — an event featuring pioneering research, emerging technologies, and innovative concepts from across the Lab. Through interactive demonstrations and ...

At the single biggest sporting event in U.S. history, drawing 5 million international visitors to 11 U.S. cities for 78 matches over the course of 39 days, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ...

NASA’s Dragonfly is starting to look less like a collection of spacecraft parts and more like the rotorcraft that will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s hazy moon. The mission reached a major ...

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 ...