MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
Multilevel Mars greenhouse could provide food to sustain astronauts for several years.
Multilevel Mars greenhouse could provide food to sustain astronauts for several years.
Successfully launched project aims to understand why some injuries result in post-traumatic osteoarthritis while others heal and recover.
Phytoplankton decline coincides with warming temperatures over the last 150 years.
Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission.
Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.
Algorithm could help autonomous underwater vehicles explore risky but scientifically-rewarding environments.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
An expert in instrumentation and early universe observations, Simcoe succeeds Jacqueline Hewitt as head of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Halo of highly energized electrons around the black hole contracts dramatically during feeding frenzy.
Measurements indicate a dense, gaseous, “sub-Neptune” world, three times the size of Earth.
Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.
Platform offers the precision that shoebox-sized CubeSats need to beam down hefty data packets.