To catch an interstellar visitor, use a solar-powered space slingshot
MIT research proposal for rendezvous missions with interstellar objects selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.
MIT research proposal for rendezvous missions with interstellar objects selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.
Samuel Birch, a new Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow at MIT, will investigate the surfaces of outer solar system objects.
Technique may enable molecule-based quantum computing.
To help us navigate this time of social distancing, three MIT astronauts share lessons of isolated living aboard the International Space Station.
Researchers in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences will help direct Mars 2020 rover sample acquisition.
MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid.
Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, among the first class to graduate under agency’s Artemis program.
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core.
Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.
MIT PhD student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros led the project; goal of the Mars Society competition was to establish a colony on Mars for 1,000 residents.
With “In Event of Moon Disaster,” the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality aims to educate the public on deepfakes with an alternative history of the moon landing.
MIT and University of Colorado researchers are collaborating on an experiment to be sent to the International Space Station.
Barret Schlegelmilch ’18 takes part in simulated NASA mission to the Martian moon Phobos.
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.