One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
“In astrophysics, we have only this one universe which we can observe,” the physics professor says. “With a computer, we can create different universes, which we can check.”
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.
Such planetary smashups are likely common in young solar systems, but they haven’t been directly observed.
The cosmic boundary, perhaps caused by a young Jupiter or an emerging wind, likely shaped the composition of infant planets.
The results provide a blueprint for finding such systems in the universe’s quieter, emptier regions.
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease.
In a 3Q, Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.
Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say.
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.
MIT scientists present exoplanet data at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.