Space, astronomy and planetary science

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

The unusual geometry of this star system made it possible for researchers to discover the first evidence of the middle stages of planet formation. Above, one star rises above the obscuring disk of matter, and its light becomes visible.

Catching planets in the making

Team sees first signs of formation's middle stages

April 2, 2008

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Professor Richard Binzel, and graduate student Cristina Thomas, are doing remote observing of asteroids using a NASA IRTF telescope in Hawaii that they are controlling from MIT. They are assisted by Paul Sears (on TV screen), a research associate in Hawaii.

Eyes on the stars, even under cloudy skies

March 19, 2008

An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background.

MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

March 19, 2008

Crewmembers of an earlier mission at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah set out for an exploratory trip on their all-terrain vehicles, wearing simulated space suits.

The next-best thing to being on Mars

February 25, 2008

Down to earth: Alumnus Tani returns from space station

February 22, 2008

MIT physicist to describe strange world of quarks, gluons

February 17, 2008

Physics professor Jacqueline Hewitt, director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Science, stands behind a prototype of a radio telescope array. A team she leads has been chosen by NASA to develop plans for such an array on the far side of the moon.

MIT to lead development of new telescopes on moon

February 15, 2008

Mercury rising: New images of planet draw interest

February 1, 2008

MIT research among Nature magazine's 2007 favorite

January 14, 2008

Taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, image shows a close up of the rock dubbed 'El Capitan.' The iron-bearing mineral jarosite, which was found in the rock, led MIT and Harvard researchers to posit that early Mars may have had the greenhouse gas sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere.

MIT, Harvard offer solution to Mars enigma

How Mars could have been warm and wet but limestone-free

December 27, 2007

MIT, others ask 'What would E.T. see?'

Team analyzes how alien astronomers would study Earth

December 20, 2007

The twin GRAIL satellites will orbit the moon close together, and constantly monitor the exact timing of radio transmissions between them to reveal any perturbations in their motion caused by variations in the moon's gravity field.

MIT to lead ambitious lunar mission

Twin satellites will study the moon's gravitational pull

December 14, 2007

MIT instrument finds surprises at solar system's edge

December 10, 2007

'New Space' leaders and ex-astronauts to speak at MIT Nov. 9-12

November 8, 2007

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