New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
January 23, 2019MIT Kavli's John Richardson describes MIT's role in the historic passing of the Voyager 2 craft past the heliopause and into the interstellar medium.
December 10, 2018Professor Richard Binzel’s new Infinite Corridor installation models the solar system at scale.
November 16, 2018The 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship provides junior scientists the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
February 7, 2018Study finds history of Titan’s landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth
May 18, 2017Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
November 16, 2016Professor Richard Binzel, NASA New Horizons scientist, describes a year of discovery since the spacecraft's historic 2015 Pluto encounter.
July 14, 2016Experiments show planet cooled dramatically in half a billion years.
June 27, 2016New study finds meteorites were byproducts of planetary formation, not building blocks.
January 14, 2015The moon’s molten, churning core likely once generated a dynamo.
December 4, 2014A new map of the solar system’s asteroids shows more diversity than previously thought.
January 29, 2014Method will help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets that are not measurable in any other way.
December 19, 2013Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids.
November 19, 2013Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
November 7, 2013Beyond the solar system, a probe launched in 1977 is likely to find a cold, dense sea of cosmic rays.
September 16, 2013Potentially habitable planets are slightly larger than Earth.
April 19, 2013Josh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds.
March 20, 2013Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
December 5, 2012Ice and organic material may have been carried to the planet by passing comets.
November 29, 2012A meteorite found in Antarctica holds evidence of a once-active dynamo on Vesta.
October 11, 2012