Space

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

This image shows the orbits of all recently discovered ultracool subdwarfs in and around the Milky Way, as seen from 150,000 light years away.

Ultracool stars take 'wild rides' around, outside the Milky Way

June 9, 2009

A picture of Mt. Lassen, an arc volcano in northern California.

MIT team solves longstanding volcanic mystery

June 5, 2009

To the moon, by way of MIT

Instrumentation Lab made Apollo landings possible 40 years ago

June 3, 2009

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences awards

June 3, 2009

The 'Atiras'

May 12, 2009

Obama calls alums in space

March 24, 2009

Near miss, but no threat

Asteroid in close pass was smaller than thought, astronomer shows

March 16, 2009

MIT alum lifts off

March 16, 2009

To find new worlds

March 6, 2009

Evidence of early sponges was found in these sediments in Oman, a Marinoan age (about 635 million yearÂ old) rock unit of calcium carbonate deposited on rocks of glacial origin. The oldest sponge steroids detected in sedimentary rocks underlie this cap carbonate, and so pre-date the end of the global Marinoan glaciations.

Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life

'Chemical fossils' provide evidence for first multicelled creatures

February 4, 2009

Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery

Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

January 15, 2009

MIT scientists to be key Lunar Institute members

January 12, 2009

A 3-D representation of Cas A. The green region is mostly iron observed in X-rays; the yellow is mostly argon and sillicon; the red is cooler debris and the blue region is the outer blast wave.

MIT provides in-depth look at exploded star

January 8, 2009

Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Latest milestone in MIT's contributions to chaos theory

December 22, 2008

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