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SciBox, a scientific planning software package, has proven critical to the success of the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.

For the third year in a row, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., has been named to Baltimore magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list.

The crater at the center of Wednesday's MESSENGER image of the day is named Dickens, after Charles Dickens, the English novelist who lived from 1812 to 1870.

Charles Goldblum has been appointed the business area executive for the Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., have developed an inexpensive sensor that can warn of impending catastrophic failure in lithium-ion batteries.

Discover magazine has named the MESSENGER mission one of the top 100 stories of 2011.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was awarded a bronze Bicycle Friendly Business Award by the League of American Bicyclists in a ceremony on its Laurel, Md., campus today.

Since its launch a decade ago on Dec. 7, 2001, NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft has collected more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, and has provided an unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purgatory.

NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), twin spacecraft being built and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., are about to enter a challenging series of tests designed to certify that they are ready for their August 2012 launch and two-year mission in Earth’s orbit.