How to detect life on Mars
Scientists from the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes instrument team develop method to detect the tiniest traces of life on other planetary bodies.
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Scientists from the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes instrument team develop method to detect the tiniest traces of life on other planetary bodies.
Honor recognizes scientists whose achievements have most advanced our understanding of planetary systems.
MIT community input will help determine the focus of the study to be carried aboard Blue Moon lander.
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.
Successfully launched project aims to understand why some injuries result in post-traumatic osteoarthritis while others heal and recover.
Teams from the MIT Media Lab, European Space Agency, and World Economic Forum will create a rating system and global standards for space waste mitigation.
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes of sustained microgravity.
Research could enable a new suite of experiments to measure quantum activity at room temperature.
Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission.
ESO, ALMA, and APEX contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87. (Press release)
Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.
The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.
Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.
Researchers say new facilities in space should be available to scientists from any country.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.