David Shoemaker named spokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Senior MIT research scientist to speak for international collaboration for gravitational wave detection research.
Senior MIT research scientist to speak for international collaboration for gravitational wave detection research.
Data suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts.
MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.
Funding will complete array and measure signals from universe’s first stars.
Planets may harbor conditions suitable for sustaining liquid water — and thus life.
Scientists observe first planet-induced stellar pulsations.
Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma jets and bubbles.
Users can search database of 1,600 stars to find signs of new exoplanets.
Study finds the swirling gas disk disappeared within the solar system’s first 4 million years.
MIT's newest faculty bring a wide array of energy interests and developments to the Institute.
Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight.
Upgrades make detectors more sensitive to gravitational waves.
Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
Detecting “axion” particles may solve longstanding problem in particle physics.
Instrument will help OSIRIS-REx mission identify locations for collecting an asteroid sample.