A highly eccentric exoplanet
Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins.
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Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins.
Unique galaxy offers clues to the extreme conditions that yield the heavies of the periodic table.
MIT’s David Shoemaker testifies before Congress on the significance of LIGO.
LIGO signal reveals first observation of two massive black holes colliding, proves Einstein right.
LIGO opens a new window on the universe with the observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes.
MIT physicist developed the concept for LIGO as a teaching exercise.
AeroAstro team turns to MIT crowdsourcing to fund entry in NASA space launch competition.
Sydney Do, a PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is adding authenticity to a virtual Mars experience.
MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches a new generation of innovators.
Created by MIT students, REXIS has been integrated onto NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
Formed in the first 4 billion years of the universe, cluster is 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way.
New book details astronomers’ hunt for clues to the early universe.
Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere.
Faculty and students grapple with 3-D printing a habitable structure on Mars.