Space

Recalling the 'Giant Leap'

July 17, 2009

MIT alumnus Buzz Aldrin PhD '63 descends NASA's Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, just prior to becoming the second human to walk on the moon.

Landing Apollo via Cambridge

Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.

July 17, 2009

MIT research is moon-bound

June 19, 2009

Planet found in tilted orbit around distant star

Odd discovery may help refine theories about how planets, solar systems form

June 17, 2009

MIT President Susan Hockfield shakes hands with MIT alum Buzz Aldrin ScD '63.

In space, past is prologue

Giant Leaps celebrates Apollo, looks to future missions.

June 12, 2009

This image shows the orbits of all recently discovered ultracool subdwarfs in and around the Milky Way, as seen from 150,000 light years away.

Ultracool stars take 'wild rides' around, outside the Milky Way

June 9, 2009

A picture of Mt. Lassen, an arc volcano in northern California.

MIT team solves longstanding volcanic mystery

June 5, 2009

To the moon, by way of MIT

Instrumentation Lab made Apollo landings possible 40 years ago

June 3, 2009

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences awards

June 3, 2009

The 'Atiras'

May 12, 2009

Obama calls alums in space

March 24, 2009

Near miss, but no threat

Asteroid in close pass was smaller than thought, astronomer shows

March 16, 2009

MIT alum lifts off

March 16, 2009

To find new worlds

March 6, 2009

Evidence of early sponges was found in these sediments in Oman, a Marinoan age (about 635 million yearÂ old) rock unit of calcium carbonate deposited on rocks of glacial origin. The oldest sponge steroids detected in sedimentary rocks underlie this cap carbonate, and so pre-date the end of the global Marinoan glaciations.

Signs point to sponges as earliest animal life

'Chemical fossils' provide evidence for first multicelled creatures

February 4, 2009

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