For first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
Asteroid is likely shedding reddish dust, revealing a fresh, blue surface beneath.
Asteroid is likely shedding reddish dust, revealing a fresh, blue surface beneath.
Study reports on search for an atmosphere around a planet somewhat similar to ours.
Tracy Slatyer hunts through astrophysical data for clues to the invisible universe.
MIT hosts "Songs from Extrasolar Spaces," a musical melding of art and science inspired by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Planetary system orbiting an unusually quiet star is ideal for future habitability searches.
MIT has completed the installation of its newest exoplanet-hunting telescope, Artemis, in the Canary Islands, joining the SPECULOOS network.
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.
Findings reported just weeks into the network’s latest operating run. (Press release)
“We will keep listening for these faint and remote cosmic whispers,” says the physics professor.
Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission.
ESO, ALMA, and APEX contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87. (Press release)
Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.
“If we are very lucky, we might observe something new … or maybe even something totally unexpected.”
The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.
Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.