MIT balloon carries "Boston Strong" banner into the stratosphere
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Student-led competition benefits Boston pediatric center
Career at MIT spanned more than 50 years, focusing on space plasma and the solar wind
MIT scientists identify a plasma plume that naturally protects the Earth against solar storms.
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment has set more stringent limits on light dark matter.
Robert Simcoe peers deep into the universe’s past to identify the first stars.
A new map of the solar system’s asteroids shows more diversity than previously thought.
Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids.
The largest asteroid is 12 miles in diameter, but poses little immediate threat to Earth.
Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
Paulo Lozano is designing tiny ion thrusters for the next generation of satellites
Map reveals a lopsided cloud distribution on an extremely hot planet.
Two MIT professors are among 24 recipients nationwide of this year’s unrestricted $625,000 prizes from the MacArthur Foundation.
Design inflates with a powder that turns into gas.
Researchers find material ejects itself before black hole can devour it.