Space

Four from MIT win prestigious Guggenheim fellowships

Doeleman, Hughes, Makan and Yablo among 181 recipients for 2012.

April 17, 2012

Perspective view of ancient volcanic plains in the northern high-latitudes of Mercury revealed by instruments on board the MESSENGER spacecraft.

A close-up view of Mercury

Researchers find the planet may have had a dynamic past.

March 22, 2012

Marwan Hussein SDM '12: Complexity and Interplanetary Space Systems

March 18, 2012

The All-Sky Monitor team assembles around the X-ray monitoring instrument. From left, Hale Bradt, Ed Morgan, Alan Levine; bottom, Ron Remillard.

X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end

The RXTE satellite retires after 16 years.

March 13, 2012

An artist's rendition of Earth's magnetosphere. A magnetic tail, or magnetotail, is formed by pressure from the solar wind on a planet's magnetosphere.

Mysterious electron acceleration explained

Computer simulation identifies source of aurora-causing high-speed electrons in space

February 27, 2012

An image of an ultra pure tellurium crystal.

An element that's rare on Earth is found far, far away

Tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars.

February 17, 2012

What drove the lunar dynamo?

Research supports theory that the moon’s molten core was likely sustained by an alternative power source.

January 27, 2012

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.

January 25, 2012

At the center of this infrared image is a massive red galaxy, 9.8 billion light-years from Earth, which acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, distorting the light from an even more distant galaxy. The observations were made with the 10-meter Keck-11 Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away

Discovery could offer clues on the nature of dark matter.

January 19, 2012

A Rosetta mission image of the asteroid 21 Lutetia.

Battered asteroid may have warm core

New analysis of Lutetia finds evidence for molten interior.

October 28, 2011

On May 27, the last day for Endeavour spacewalkers, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff continued to work on the International Space Station.

3 Questions: Greg Chamitoff on the final frontier

Alum-astronaut relives some of the highlights of his space shuttle career.

October 5, 2011

TESS's primary goal would be to identify terrestrial
planets orbiting nearby stars.

MIT’s TESS project awarded $1 million NASA grant

October 4, 2011

An artist's rendering of the twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the moon. The project uses two spacecraft flying in formation with known altitude amd separation distance to investigate the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

To the moon

MIT-led GRAIL mission to map the lunar gravitational field.

September 8, 2011

A rendering of the silhouette of 55 Cancri e transiting its parent star, compared to the Earth and Jupiter transiting our sun.

Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet

New data reveals a ‘super-Earth’ next door, astronomically speaking

July 19, 2011

The late William Lenoir '61, SM '62, PhD '65 was the first MIT alumnus to fly on the space shuttle, joining the crew of STS-5 aboard Columbia in 1982. Here Lenoir checks vision using DIOPTER measuring device during that flight.

Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff

MIT has contributed 27 alumni-astronauts, plenty of earthbound expertise.

July 8, 2011

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