Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Professor Nancy Leveson has developed unique approach to managing risky businesses

May 21, 2008

Airport diagram of Boston's Logan International Airport with Runway Intersection Lights, Takeoff Hold Lights, and Runway Entrance Lights (in red).

Logan to get Lincoln Lab-developed runway safety system

May 21, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Record-breaking Daedalus project marks 20th anniversary

April 22, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in MIT wind tunnel

March 6, 2008

Crewmembers of an earlier mission at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah set out for an exploratory trip on their all-terrain vehicles, wearing simulated space suits.

The next-best thing to being on Mars

February 25, 2008

Down to earth: Alumnus Tani returns from space station

February 22, 2008

Physics professor Jacqueline Hewitt, director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Science, stands behind a prototype of a radio telescope array. A team she leads has been chosen by NASA to develop plans for such an array on the far side of the moon.

MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon

February 15, 2008

Mercury rising: New images of planet draw interest

February 1, 2008

Waitz to lead Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

January 11, 2008

Robert Weber, Lincoln Lab physicist, 81

January 8, 2008

Akiva Yaglom, research fellow, dies at 86

December 18, 2007

The twin GRAIL satellites will orbit the moon close together, and constantly monitor the exact timing of radio transmissions between them to reveal any perturbations in their motion caused by variations in the moon's gravity field.

MIT to lead ambitious lunar mission

Twin satellites will study the moon's gravitational pull

December 14, 2007

MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge

December 10, 2007

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Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Logan to get Lincoln Lab-developed runway safety system

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

Record-breaking Daedalus project marks 20th anniversary

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in MIT wind tunnel

The next-best thing to being on Mars

Down to earth: Alumnus Tani returns from space station

MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon

Mercury rising: New images of planet draw interest

Waitz to lead Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Robert Weber, Lincoln Lab physicist, 81

Akiva Yaglom, research fellow, dies at 86

MIT to lead ambitious lunar mission

MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge

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