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DART is NASA’s first mission not to explore space, but to defend against it. Researchers at Johns Hopkins plan to launch a spacecraft and smash it into an asteroid. BOOM! The impact, they hope, will bump the big space rock off course.

Dickron Mergerian was manager of the Applied Physics Group at the Westinghouse Defense & Electronics Systems Center in Linthicum.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully captured images and data as it flew past an object nicknamed Ultima Thule early Tuesday morning, scientists confirmed. But they won't get their first close-up glimpse of the edge of the solar system until Wednesday afternoon.

Three and a half years after exploring Pluto, the New Horizons mission will reach another new frontier in the first hours of 2019. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission will fly past a Kuiper Belt object known as Ultima Thule, a pristine remnant of the early universe.

In a far-ranging talk Wednesday on space, physics and the origin of all that is, Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Mather went from the very old and incredible small, to the infinite, and nearly back again.

Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said.

There were a number of events, including ones where students launched pingpong balls in the gym and one where students had to create tops and make them spin.

Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his research on the universe’s origin and expansion.

Dr. Donald Coffey, Johns Hopkins scientist who helped understand cancer's mysteries, dies at 85.

University of Maryland scientist Joseph Weber clung to his belief that he had detected gravitational waves and was cast out from the scientific community. But now his reputation is being reassessed.

Scientists said they’ve detected the collision of two neutron stars and confirmed that these cataclysmic events are indeed a source of gold, platinum and other heavy e

Myles McKay, a young scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, will be studying the total solar eclipse from South Carolina as part of Citizen CATE, one of many eclipse research projects.

Gamma ray bursts are second only to the Big Bang in the amount of energy they emit — an amount similar to the amount of energy our sun would give off in its entire lifetime.

Scientists have been trying to figure out how to explore the sun since the 1950s — such a daring mission was on a short list that helped spur the inception of

After years of high unemployment and depressed wages, the job market is looking up for recent college grads, experts say.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will be playing a role in Lucy and Psyche, missions to explore the solar system and better understand how it formed.

Marriotts Ridge High School student Yoshihiro Saito, along with project partner Lauryn Wu, finished third at this month's finals of the 17th annual Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology — a result that earned the duo a $40,000 scholarship.

Theodore O. "Ted" Poehler, 81, a materials scientist and teacher who spent 60 years at the Johns Hopkins University, died of cancer complications Saturday at Ridgeway Manor Nursing Home.

Dr. Joyce J. Kaufman, a Johns Hopkins University chemist and research scientist who conducted ground-breaking work in the field of physical chemistry, died Aug. 26 from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. She was 87.

NASA's Juno mission will give scientists their first close-up look of Jupiter's auroras and the clouds of energetic particles swirling around it.

Astronomers say they have for a second time heard the echoes of merging black holes — a discovery that hints that the unseen violence of the universe may be pretty common.

As colorful abstractions projected on the ceiling dance to the sound of chimes, three actors move forward and back on a runway, their arms rigid at their sides as they flip around with each careful step, confined to a single line. Thus is the reality of the denizens of Line Land, anthropomorphized geometric shapes who are helplessly constricted as the two-dimensional Chromatistes blinks in and out of their view in the first interdimensional interaction of Flatland. "Flatland," a stage adaptation

Looking back at new developments in health, science, and technology this year, one thing is clear — 2015 was a banner year for medical milestones, scientific breakthroughs and technological advances at local universities and biotech companies.

High school and community college students with interests in the STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, field received career advice from a panel of professionals Friday, which kicked off the first Maryland STEM Festival event in Carroll.

Pluto may be a strange, faraway world, but scientists have learned it shares a familiar trait with Earth -- a blue sky.

Johns Hopkins University to join $100 million initiative to study the brain, will create neuroscience institute.

The latest data downloaded from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggests mountains of nitrogen ice thousands of feet high have evaporated into Pluto's atmosphere since the dwarf planet formed 4.5 billion years ago, and hundreds of tons of that gas are escaping into space each hour.

As NASA's New Horizons mission nears an encounter with Pluto, scientists are getting one never-before-seen look of the dwarf planet after another.

The emergence of drones — or unmanned aerial systems as they are sometimes known — has mirrored the development of other military technologies: One nation deploys a new weapon, but its advantage is quickly scrubbed away as its enemies race to catch up.

A NASA mission intends to explore just how hospitable Jupiter's icy moon Europa might be for life.

More than a decade after Maryland inventor Robert Fischell began exploring use of magnets to relieve migraine pain, the idea could be on the verge of a $65 million sale for eNeura.

A severe solar storm caught scientists by surprise when it hit Earth on Tuesday, creating dramatic shows of the Northern Lights and illustrating shortcomings in our understanding of solar winds.

As part of a research team studying galaxies, two University of Maryland scientists recently helped find a wild one.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab successfully brought the New Horizons spacecraft out of hibernation for the last time as it nears the climax of a nearly decade-long journey to observe Pluto.

The first U.S.-launched satellite, Explorer I, was 6 feet long and weighed 30 pounds, and it led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt that surrounds Earth. More than 50 years later, however, scientists could do a lot more with far less.