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The 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

As space-based probes and telescopes continue to reveal new and seemingly unimaginable features of our universe, a geological landmark on Saturn’s moon Iapetus ranks high on the list of things particularly peculiar.

Jack C. Roberts, a program manager and principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Ronald R. Luman has been named Assistant Director for Strategy at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.

Jerry A. Krill has been named Assistant Director for Science and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.

Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space and collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission has been extended yet again to continue its mission to study the influences of the sun and humans on our upper atmosphere.

Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone over three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars.

More than 100 Maryland middle school students will get an inside look at lunar exploration when they visit the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., for “Space Academy” on Friday, Oct. 22.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2, taken on Sept. 25, are helping in the planning for a Nov. 4 flyby of the comet by the Deep Impact eXtended Investigation on NASA’s EPOXI mission.

Ten years ago, NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission (NEAR) made history as the first spacecraft to orbit and land on an asteroid. Now the team behind that successful mission proposes a sequel that could pave the way for astronauts to explore an asteroid for the first time.