3 Questions: Looking to Artemis I for a return to the moon
As NASA launches Artemis I, MIT experts weigh in on the importance of the mission to future space exploration.
As NASA launches Artemis I, MIT experts weigh in on the importance of the mission to future space exploration.
Simulations rule out plasmas caused by meteoroid impacts as the source of lunar magnetism, supporting the proposal that the ancient moon generated a core dynamo.
Artemis program will focus on returning humans to the moon.
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core.
Honor recognizes scientists whose achievements have most advanced our understanding of planetary systems.
MIT community input will help determine the focus of the study to be carried aboard Blue Moon lander.
Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, molten core.
Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.
A brief history of the famous 1969 photo of the software that sent humans to the moon.
AeroAstro team turns to MIT crowdsourcing to fund entry in NASA space launch competition.
Study finds barrage of small asteroids shattered moon’s upper crust.
The moon’s molten, churning core likely once generated a dynamo.
System developed by Lincoln Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is named one of 2014's most influential technologies.
MIT researchers find that a volcanic plume, not an asteroid, likely created the moon’s largest basin.