Space

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.

January 25, 2012

At the center of this infrared image is a massive red galaxy, 9.8 billion light-years from Earth, which acts like a cosmic magnifying glass, distorting the light from an even more distant galaxy. The observations were made with the 10-meter Keck-11 Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away

Discovery could offer clues on the nature of dark matter.

January 19, 2012

A Rosetta mission image of the asteroid 21 Lutetia.

Battered asteroid may have warm core

New analysis of Lutetia finds evidence for molten interior.

October 28, 2011

On May 27, the last day for Endeavour spacewalkers, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff continued to work on the International Space Station.

3 Questions: Greg Chamitoff on the final frontier

Alum-astronaut relives some of the highlights of his space shuttle career.

October 5, 2011

TESS's primary goal would be to identify terrestrial
planets orbiting nearby stars.

MIT’s TESS project awarded $1 million NASA grant

October 4, 2011

An artist's rendering of the twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the moon. The project uses two spacecraft flying in formation with known altitude amd separation distance to investigate the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

To the moon

MIT-led GRAIL mission to map the lunar gravitational field.

September 8, 2011

A rendering of the silhouette of 55 Cancri e transiting its parent star, compared to the Earth and Jupiter transiting our sun.

Stellar eclipse gives glimpse of exoplanet

New data reveals a ‘super-Earth’ next door, astronomically speaking

July 19, 2011

The late William Lenoir '61, SM '62, PhD '65 was the first MIT alumnus to fly on the space shuttle, joining the crew of STS-5 aboard Columbia in 1982. Here Lenoir checks vision using DIOPTER measuring device during that flight.

Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff

MIT has contributed 27 alumni-astronauts, plenty of earthbound expertise.

July 8, 2011

3 Questions: Richard Binzel on near-Earth asteroids

'2011 MD,' found by a Lincoln Lab team, will pass close to the planet on Monday.

June 27, 2011

Greg Chamitoff, Cady Coleman, and Mike Fincke pose together on the International Space Station. They each wear an "MIT 150" t-shirt

Greetings from space

Astronaut alumni wish MIT a happy 150th from 200 miles above.

June 1, 2011

Charles Stark Draper, right, and CBS journalist Eric Sevareid take a look at the automatic navigation system developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. In 1958, Sevareid, Draper and several I-Lab staff members made a nationally televised cross-country flight piloted by the system.

Doc Draper in space

A letter written by Charles Stark Draper in 1961 hitches a ride on Space Shuttle Endeavour.

May 31, 2011

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment ready for launch in Endeavour’s payload bay.

New Endeavour for an MIT experiment

Space shuttle propels MIT-led Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.

May 25, 2011

David Mindell, right, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, speaks about the history of exploration. Stephen J. Pyne, Regents’ professor at Arizona State University, and Rosalind Williams, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, look on.

Exploring exploration

From deep space to deep sea, two-day symposium examined MIT’s impacts and innovations.

April 29, 2011

The space shuttle lifts off in December, 1993, with Hoffman aboard, for the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

3 Questions: Jeffrey Hoffman on the Space Shuttle at 30

Anniversary of the first shuttle flight comes just as it nears retirement, but the vehicle has changed space travel dramatically.

April 12, 2011

One of the thousands of fragments recovered from the Allende meteorite, which fell in Mexico in 1969. The black area is a fusion crust, produced from the heat of slamming into Earth's atmosphere. New studies of one such fragment provided evidence that the object the meteorite originated from had a magnetic field.

Cold asteroids may have a soft heart

Partially molten small bodies may be abundant in space, and may have given the Earth its oceans.

April 8, 2011

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