Space

Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery

Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core

January 15, 2009

MIT scientists to be key Lunar Institute members

January 12, 2009

A 3-D representation of Cas A. The green region is mostly iron observed in X-rays; the yellow is mostly argon and sillicon; the red is cooler debris and the blue region is the outer blast wave.

MIT provides in-depth look at exploded star

January 8, 2009

Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

Latest milestone in MIT's contributions to chaos theory

December 22, 2008

MIT joins $30 million race to the moon

Aero-Astro professors, students are part of mystery team in lunar competition

December 17, 2008

A new vision for people in space

Report outlines goals for future of human space program

December 16, 2008

An inside view of a neutron detector in development at MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Pappalardo Fellow Jocelyn Monroe, is seen through the detector.

New detector will aid dark matter search

Calibration tool will reveal when hypothetical particles are detected

December 10, 2008

Professor Adam Burgasser, physics, has a paper on the discovery of the faintest brown dwarfs ever found.

Dimmest star-like objects discovered

December 10, 2008

MIT planetary scientist Maria T. Zuber has been named this year by the magazine U.S. News and World Report as one of "America's Best Leaders."

Zuber named to list of 'best leaders'

U.S. News honors luminaries in arts, science and politics

November 21, 2008

Pan-STARRS 1 prototype, part of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, Haleakala mountain, Maui.

Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets

Detectors developed at Lincoln Laboratory deployed in powerful telescope

November 18, 2008

Two Scientists named to Discover's 'Top 20 Under 40' list

November 13, 2008

The world in a whole new light

November 4, 2008

Professor Benjamin Weiss, of the department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, reports oldest known records of planetary magnetic fields, which are a key to understanding earlyÂ planetary evolution. Here he holdsÂ a sample of the vesicular basaltic meteorite named D'Orbigny that he analyzed as part of this study.

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets

October 30, 2008

NASA Astronaut Greg Chamitoff PhD '92 catches a meal near the galley of the International Space Station. Michael Fincke '89 will be joining him shortly.

A giant leap for MIT: 4 alumni-astronauts will simultaneously be in orbit

October 29, 2008

Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science

Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again

New surge ends a decade of stability; cause still unknown