3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth
Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.
Richard Binzel describes how asteroid dirt and dust delivered by OSIRIS-Rex, with help from MIT, may reveal clues to the solar system’s origins.
The frosty gas giant was discovered in a system that also hosts a warm Jupiter.
A new technique uses remote images to gauge the strength of ancient and active rivers beyond Earth.
Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.
A new study shows that simple hand magnets erase a meteorite’s magnetic memory.
George Ricker and his team at the MIT Kavli Institute are mapping the entire sky for signs of life.
Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels.
MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.
Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.
Those selected for these positions receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.
Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.
Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth.
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.