Study reveals the Phoenix galaxy cluster in the act of extreme cooling
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies.
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies.
Ideal for propelling tiny satellites, the lightweight devices could be produced on board a spacecraft and cost much less than traditional thrusters.
Researchers characterize the peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a.
Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.
AeroAstro PhD student Sydney Dolan uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop collision-avoidance algorithms for satellites.
The engineer and aspiring astronaut developed an outreach program at Lincoln Laboratory to help bring hands-on STEM activities to all.
The fleeting cosmic firework likely emerged from the turbulent magnetosphere around a far-off neutron star.
Longtime MIT faculty member used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.
New study proposes that some of the minerals seen on Mars today may have formed in liquid CO2 instead of water.
The Lincoln Laboratory-developed laser communications payload operates at the data rates required to image these never-before-seen thin halos of light.
Professor of the practice Alan Lightman’s new book digs into the wonder of striking visual phenomena in nature.
A weak magnetic field likely pulled matter inward to form the outer planetary bodies, from Jupiter to Neptune.
Aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the terminal will beam data over laser links during the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.
MIT Kavli Institute scientists and collaborators will produce a concept study to launch a $1B experiment to investigate the X-ray universe.
The discovery of pyrene derivatives in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed.