NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12 make up a third of the 2021 NASA astronaut candidate class.
Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12 make up a third of the 2021 NASA astronaut candidate class.
The boiling new world, which zips around its star at ultraclose range, is among the lightest exoplanets found to date.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
Co-Investigator Scientist Professor Richard Binzel discusses NASA’s latest interplanetary mission, which is co-led by Cathy Olkin ’88, PhD ’96.
The findings include signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders downstream into the lakebed.
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.
Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
Following touchdown, MOXIE will brew up oxygen while geologists comb for sediments to sample.
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.
Results significantly narrow the range of possible places to find the hypothetical dark matter particles.
Artemis program will focus on returning humans to the moon.
As part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Professor Tanja Bosak helps determine the best samples to bring home for clues about life 4 billion years ago.
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.