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A red sphere, left, sucks energy out of a brown sphere, causing a patch on the red sphere to glow white hot.

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

The discovery reveals a new way that stars and planetary companions can interact.

October 5, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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A red sphere, left, sucks energy out of a brown sphere, causing a patch on the red sphere to glow white hot.

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

Categories: Research, Faculty, Graduate Students, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Panoramic orbital view of Earth's curved horizon illuminated by a green aurora layer, with the Canadarm2 robotic arm extended from the International Space Station in the foreground.

From Montgomery Blair High to space: Chris Williams, PhD ’12, reflects on his path

Categories: In The News, Alumni
Faith Reyes stands in front of a large device in the lab.

Scattering neutrinos to probe the fundamental laws of the universe

Categories: Profile, Graduate Students, WiSTEM, Particle Physics Experiment
Man posing with arms crossed looking straight at camera stands on left of image. On right is image of two rectangular particle detectors one on top of the other. The top one is yellow, the bottom is blue. The blue one has a light that is lit.

Making the Invisible Visible

Categories: In The News, Alumni, Particle Physics Experiment
MIT Dean Nergis Mavalvala standing at a podium presenting to a large lecture hall filled with students and faculty, with a slide displaying MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss on a screen behind her.

Astrophysicist Dr Nergis Mavalvala explains how scientists ‘listen’ to the universe

Categories: In The News, Faculty

Podcast: SHASS’s special sauce

Categories: Interview/Q&A, In The News, Faculty
Two slightly rotated black hexagonal lattice sheets creating a moiré pattern over a white background.

Twisting 2D nanomaterials unlocks exotic quantum phases of matter

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
3D digital illustration showing glowing electron spheres forming pairs over a wavy, luminescent quantum field between two metallic blocks.

‘Vacuumtronics’ could help make better superconductors

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
A white robotic arm lines up black boxes in an experiment. A rendering of a futuristic robot lab is in the background.

Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand

Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory

New artist residency program at MIT expands views of the cosmos

Categories: In The News, Labs & Centers, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
merging black holes at different spins and sizes

‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Kavli Prize laureate shaking hands with an official on stage during the ceremony while two other laureates look on.

How Twisting Two-Dimensional Materials Led to a New Field of Research

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
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