Exploring Mars with the Curiosity rover: The search for ancient habitable environments
EAPS inaugural Brace Lecture will feature NASA Curiosity rover chief scientist John Grotzinger
Looking for first light
Robert Simcoe peers deep into the universe’s past to identify the first stars.
New technique measures mass of exoplanets
Method will help scientists determine the mass of exoplanets that are not measurable in any other way.
Asteroids' close encounters with Mars
Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids.
Theodore Madden, EAPS professor emeritus, dies at 88
A MIT faculty member for more than 40 years, Madden is remembered for his contributions to earth science research.
The moon’s face doesn’t tell its whole story
Researchers find that huge craters on the near side of the moon may overstate the intensity of asteroid impacts about 4.1 billion years ago.
Making Martian clouds on Earth
Cloud-chamber experiments show that clouds on Mars form in much more humid conditions than clouds on Earth.
Detecting DNA in space
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
An answer to a lunar mystery: Why is the moon’s gravity so uneven?
Simulations based on GRAIL data show how gravitational anomalies developed early in lunar history.
Revising Darwin’s sinking-island theory
New study helps resolve a dispute over the origins of coral-reef formations.
Finding a gecko in the crowd
A combination of crowdsourcing and computer vision could identify individuals within endangered populations.
Mapping the early history of the moon
In 41st annual Killian Lecture, Maria Zuber describes looking deep into the moon’s interior to chart its early history.
Mercury may have harbored an ancient magma ocean
Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury’s surface.
When the first stars blinked on
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.