Study reveals details of “golf ball asteroid”
A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface.
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A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface.
Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, among the first class to graduate under agency’s Artemis program.
Report co-chaired by MIT professor cites need for “sweeping changes” in academic culture.
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core.
Michael Calzadilla and colleagues describe a violent black hole outburst that provides new insight into galaxy cluster evolution.
A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous nature on Earth may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life.
A new analysis puts dark matter back in the game as a possible source of energy excess at the galactic center.
Technology “squeezes” out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detected.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in microgravity.
MIT PhD student George Lordos and his brother Alexandros led the project; goal of the Mars Society competition was to establish a colony on Mars for 1,000 residents.
With increasingly advanced data, Michael McDonald and colleagues study a galaxy cluster bursting with new stars.
MIT and University of Colorado researchers are collaborating on an experiment to be sent to the International Space Station.
New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation.
Scientists simulate early galaxy formation in a universe of dark matter that is ultralight, or “fuzzy,” rather than cold or warm.
MIT planetary scientists partner with computer scientists to find exoplanets.