George Clark, professor emeritus and X-ray astronomy leader, dies at 94
Longtime MIT faculty member led investigations into cosmic-ray physics and gamma-ray and X-ray astronomy.
Longtime MIT faculty member led investigations into cosmic-ray physics and gamma-ray and X-ray astronomy.
The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon, carrying messages in more than 64 languages from over 80 countries.
Since his first encounter with a research telescope, the astrophysics professor hasn't slowed in his quest to understand the behavior of galaxies.
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.
Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.
George Ricker and his team at the MIT Kavli Institute are mapping the entire sky for signs of life.
Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels.
MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
A method for quickly predicting the forces needed to push objects through "flowable media" could help engineers drive robots or anchor ships.
AeroAstro major and accomplished tuba player Frederick Ajisafe relishes the community he has found in the MIT Wind Ensemble.
National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group will guide the Biden-Harris administration on space preservation and industry.
Fifteen MIT students traveled to Washington to speak to representatives from several federal executive agencies.