MIT celebrates 50th anniversary of historic moon landing
Symposium featuring former astronauts and other Apollo mission luminaries examines the program’s legacy.
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.
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
An expert in instrumentation and early universe observations, Simcoe succeeds Jacqueline Hewitt as head of MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the speed of light.
Researchers use CHIME telescope to detect fast radio bursts at low frequencies and a second repeating burst.
Halo of highly energized electrons around the black hole contracts dramatically during feeding frenzy.
New EAPS thesis field is the most recent to join the computational science and engineering doctoral program within the Center for Computational Engineering.
Measurements indicate a dense, gaseous, “sub-Neptune” world, three times the size of Earth.
Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.
Theoretical physicist's focus on the complexity of plasma turbulence could pay dividends in fusion energy.
MIT astronomer and writer investigates ancient starlight and shares her excitement about the cosmos.
MIT’s Mark Vogelsberger and the Illustris project are honored by Germany's postal service with an official stamp.
"Magic-angle" graphene named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year; first ionic plane and earliest evidence of hydrogen gas named to top 10 breakthroughs.