LIGO and Virgo detect rare mergers of black holes with neutron stars for the first time
In a 3Q, Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.
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In a 3Q, Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.
MIT researchers are co-leading the design of a global Space Sustainability Rating system that will soon be operational.
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.
Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.
Four MIT undergraduates whose research areas explore artificial intelligence, space, and climate change honored for their academic achievements.
Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say.
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.
International Astronomical Union grants request to name minor planet discovered by the LINEAR program in honor of the Italian senator for life for her efforts to combat intolerance.
Following touchdown, MOXIE will brew up oxygen while geologists comb for sediments to sample.
Maya Nasr’s work on the Mars 2020 mission has led her to become an advocate for expanding international cooperation in space.
MIT scientists present exoplanet data at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Sebring founded the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation and led Haystack Observatory from 1970 to 1980.