Planetary physicist and former director of the MIT Center for Space Research and the Arecibo Observatory helped repurpose military radar technology for science and space exploration.
Student-led efforts preserve iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research.
Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.
Following touchdown, MOXIE will brew up oxygen while geologists comb for sediments to sample.
Sebring founded the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation and led Haystack Observatory from 1970 to 1980.
Analysis of Event Horizon Telescope observations from 2009 to 2017 reveals turbulent evolution of the M87* black hole image.
National Science Foundation awards proposal for space weather modeling.
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
MIT Haystack Observatory researchers coauthor a paper announcing the observation of a surprising structure in a distant quasar, 3C 279.
Awards program annually recognizes three early-career scientists under 35 who have made outstanding contributions to astronomy.
Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share in the prize, while David Jay Julius ’77 wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski shares New Horizons prize with Xie Chen PhD ’12 and Michael Levin PhD ’06.
Won Rumford Medal in 1971 for his pioneering work in very long baseline astronomy.
ESO, ALMA, and APEX contribute to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87. (Press release)
Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.