MIT study confirms the climate impacts of hydrogen, recommends leak prevention be a priority as infrastructure for handling this clean-burning fuel is built.
The team’s detection method, which identified 138 space rocks ranging from bus- to stadium-sized, could aid in tracking potential asteroid impactors.
Josephine Carstensen and David McGee discuss the value and impact that MIT Global Seed Funds, which create synergistic partnerships between faculty and peers abroad, added to their research.
Study shows how smart policies could address competing land-use needs.
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
A weak magnetic field likely pulled matter inward to form the outer planetary bodies, from Jupiter to Neptune.
Two faculty, a graduate student, and 10 additional alumni receive top awards and prizes; four faculty, one senior researcher, and seven alumni named APS Fellows.
MIT Research Scientist Jason Soderblom describes how the NASA mission will study the geology and composition of the surface of Jupiter’s water-rich moon and assess its astrobiological potential.
Models show that an unexpected reduction in human-driven emissions led to a 10 percent decline in atmospheric mercury concentrations.
A new study shows Mars’ early thick atmosphere could be locked up in the planet’s clay surface.
EAPS PhD student Jared Bryan found a way to use his research on earthquakes to help understand exoplanet migration.
Assistant Professor Richard Teague describes how movement of unstable gas in a protoplanetary disk lends credibility to a secondary theory of planetary formation.
The presence of organic matter is inconclusive, but the rocks could be scientists’ best chance at finding remnants of ancient Martian life.
New center taps Institute-wide expertise to improve understanding of, and responses to, sustainability challenges.
The barely-there lunar atmosphere is likely the product of meteorite impacts over billions of years, a new study finds.