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JWST Will Hunt for Dead Solar Systems — And Much More — In Its Second Year of Science

In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet

Astronomers detect the closest example yet of a black hole devouring a star

Graduate Students Andrea Sylvia Biscoveanu and Calvin Leung, Pappalardo Fellow Nicholas Kern, and MIT Kavli postdoc Peter Kosec, awarded 2023 NASA Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

MIT welcomes 2023 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow Juliana García-Mejía

Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds

At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up

Hunting for Axions in the Galactic Center

Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet

Astronomers discover a rare “black widow” binary, with the shortest orbit yet