In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
The 2D map of this “disk wind” may reveal clues to galaxy formation.
Following an influential career at NASA, Ezinne Uzo-Okoro SM ’20, PhD ’22 now shapes space policy as a top White House advisor.
George Ricker and his team at the MIT Kavli Institute are mapping the entire sky for signs of life.
J-WAFS researchers are using remote sensing observations to build high-resolution systems to monitor drought.
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.
Lincoln Laboratory’s Agile MicroSat will be the first small satellite to demonstrate long-duration, low-altitude flight with autonomous maneuvering.
Lincoln Laboratory’s TeraByte InfraRed Delivery system sent data from a satellite to Earth at 100 Gbps — a rate that will transform future science missions.
Technologies recognized with "Oscars of Innovation" transform hurricane tracking, electronics cooling, collision avoidance, cybersecurity, and more.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
The reconfigurable antenna can transmit and receive signals over multiple radio-frequency bands relevant to military and commercial applications.
New research showcases a pilot application using seismometers to monitor groundwater aquifers in California.
Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.