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An inside view of a neutron detector in development at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Pappalardo Fellow Jocelyn Monroe, is seen through the detector.

New detector will aid dark matter search

Calibration tool will reveal when hypothetical particles are detected

December 10, 2008

Professor Adam Burgasser, physics, has a paper on the discovery of the faintest brown dwarfs ever found.

Dimmest star-like objects discovered

December 10, 2008

MIT planetary scientist Maria T. Zuber has been named this year by the magazine U.S. News and World Report as one of "America's Best Leaders."

Zuber named to list of 'best leaders'

U.S. News honors luminaries in arts, science and politics

November 21, 2008

Pan-STARRS 1 prototype, part of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, Haleakala mountain, Maui.

Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets

Detectors developed at Lincoln Laboratory deployed in powerful telescope

November 18, 2008

Two Scientists named to Discover's 'Top 20 Under 40' list

November 13, 2008

The world in a whole new light

November 4, 2008

Professor Benjamin Weiss, of the department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, reports oldest known records of planetary magnetic fields, which are a key to understanding earlyÂ planetary evolution. Here he holdsÂ a sample of the vesicular basaltic meteorite named D'Orbigny that he analyzed as part of this study.

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

October 30, 2008

NASA Astronaut Greg Chamitoff PhD '92 catches a meal near the galley of the International Space Station. Michael Fincke '89 will be joining him shortly.

A giant leap for MIT: 4 alumni-astronauts will simultaneously be in orbit

October 29, 2008

Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science

Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again

New surge ends a decade of stability; cause still unknown

October 29, 2008

Young planets stay hotter longer

Study shows newborn Earth-like planets could be easier to find

October 14, 2008

Graphic shows four radio observatories in Hawaii, Arizona and California linked to create a 2,800-mile-wide virtual telescope.

New virtual telescope zooms in on Milky Way's super-massive black hole

September 3, 2008

Lonsdale to head MIT Haystack Observatory

August 29, 2008

Meteorite 00506, found in Antractica in 2000.

MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link

New analysis makes it possible to 'know our enemy'

August 13, 2008

MIT's venerable Millstone Hill Radar antenna is getting an upgrade, which will allow it to continue its work cataloging objects circling Earth and monitoring satellite and spacecraft launches.

Sputnik-era antenna gets 21st century upgrade

August 7, 2008

Image from the Chandra X-ray observatory shows remnants of supernova Cassiopeia A, and picks out the different X-ray signatures of elements such as iron and silicon that sprayed out in the explosive death of a star.

MIT instruments featured as highlight of NASA's 50 years

Chandra orbiting telescope in Nature's compilation of 10 NASA accomplishments

August 1, 2008

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