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MIT's SPHERES mini satellites rocketed into space on Monday, April 24, en route to the International Space Station. The SPHERES team tested the satellites in 2004 aboard a NASA plane used to simulate weightlessness. From left are team members Stephanie Chen, Steve Sell and Edmund Kong.

Mini MIT satellites rocketing to space station

April 25, 2006

This false-color image from three of NASA's Great Observatories provides one example of a star that died in a fiery supernova blast. Called Cassiopeia A, this supernova remnant is located 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. At the center of this orb, visible only as a tiny turquoise dot, is the leftover corpse of the now-dead star, called a neutron star. The multi-hued shell o...

Fiery debris linked to strange new planets

April 5, 2006

MIT Assistant Professor Karl Berggren of electrical engineering and computer science works on nanowires in the lab.

MIT light detector may speed up interplanetary communications

March 20, 2006

IAP: Series explores faith of scientists

January 19, 2006

Star research earns physicist share of Bruno Rossi Prize

January 18, 2006

This image is an animation of a neutron star X-ray burst.

Scientists find black hole's 'point of no return'

January 9, 2006

This graphic depicts hot gas orbiting a black hole.

Spinning black hole leaves dent in space-time

January 9, 2006

Screenshot from a movie showing early stages of the occultation of star C313.2 (smaller yellow dot) by Pluto's moon Charon.

Pluto's moon Charon found to lack atmosphere

January 4, 2006

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November 16, 2005

The X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer observatory recently took these images of a galaxy cluster (one for each of four cameras and telescopes key to the device).

MIT space cameras take first pictures

October 14, 2005

Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a short gamma-ray burst burst discovered by an MIT team using NASA's High Energy Transient Explorer satellite.

HETE satellite solves mystery of short gamma ray bursts

October 6, 2005

Forum set to bring space down to earth

September 21, 2005

An illustration of convection in a sun-like star. Neon, along with atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, plays an important role in regulating the rate at which energy flows from nuclear reactions in the Sun's core to its surface.

Neon study resolves sun dilemma

July 29, 2005

A section of the ALH84001 Mars meteorite. Evidence from this meteorite led MIT researchers to the conclusion that Mars has been extremely cold for billions of years.

So cool: Study shows Mars in 4-billion-year freeze

July 21, 2005

An artist's conception of Pluto and its moon Charon.

MIT-Williams team catches rare light show

July 20, 2005

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