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Dr. Stamatios M. (Tom) Krimigis has been named a "fellow" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Alexander Kossiakoff, chief scientist and a former director of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, joins Secretary of State Colin Powell as the 2004 recipients of the distinguished JHU President’s Medal.

A new startup company has emerged from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with a product that processes millions of data points recorded from airborne and ground-based devices — in real time — and turns them into lifelike 3-D graphics.

More than 100 Maryland middle school students discovered how and why scientists will take the first-ever 3-D images of the sun using two nearly identical spacecraft when they met with Johns Hopkins APL engineers during Space Academy: STEREO Mission.

NASA's MESSENGER — set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury — launched today at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

MESSENGER will conduct an in-depth study of the Sun's closest neighbor, the least explored of the terrestrial ("rocky") planets that also include Venus, Earth and Mars.

As NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft begins its four-year orbital tour of the Saturn system, mission scientists will use an innovative imaging device to deliver the most detailed look yet at the relationship between the Sun, the giant ringed planet and the diverse collection of moons looping around it.

Vaughan was cited for her work as guidance and control lead engineer for the MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft — a NASA Discovery mission that will conduct the first orbital study of the innermost planet after its launch this summer.

This finding puts researchers one step closer to a comprehensive understanding of the ocean's carbon cycle, to knowing how organisms like phytoplankton protect the Earth from global warming, and to determining what effect phytoplankton might have on climate.

Roelof was recognized by AGU for his "continued innovative research in space physics and for his founding of the field of energetic neutral atom imaging."