CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters.
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.
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say.
Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.
MIT scientists present exoplanet data at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution.
Results significantly narrow the range of possible places to find the hypothetical dark matter particles.
Associate professor of physics shares the honor with colleague Phillip Mocz for their novel dark matter research.
Simulations rule out plasmas caused by meteoroid impacts as the source of lunar magnetism, supporting the proposal that the ancient moon generated a core dynamo.
Undergraduate in electrical engineering and computer science contributes to startling new astronomy research.
MIT postdoc finds the angle at which we view neutron star collisions could significantly impact age measurements.
The fast radio bursts are likely generated by a magnetar, the most magnetic type of star in the universe.
Nicholas Demos, a first-generation college graduate and MathWorks Fellow in MIT’s Kavli Institute, is improving our ability to listen to the cosmos.