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Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail

The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours.

April 26, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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An aerial view of the Virgo site shows the Mode-Cleaner building, the Central building, the 3km-long west arm and the beginning of the north arm.

We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find

September 19, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Transmission electron micrograph graphic

New material sports wavy layers of atoms

September 19, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Alumni, Condensed Matter Experiment
Man stands holding example of what moiré quantum matter looks like

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero named 2024 Clarivate Citation Laureate

September 19, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider

Hopes for new physics dashed by ordinary-looking W bosons at CERN

September 17, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni, High Energy and Particle Theory
An illustration shows a black hole, indicated by warped light, near a planet in the solar system

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

September 17, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory
Frank Wilczek shakes hands with the King of Sweden while receiving the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!

September 17, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

MIT OpenCourseWare sparks the joy of deep understanding

September 17, 2024
Categories: In The News, Education
A primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars with the sun in the background.

A wobble from Mars could be sign of dark matter, MIT study finds

September 17, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Alumni, Astrophysics Theory

Robert Simcoe, Director of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to receive 2024 Muhlmann Award

September 16, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus
Image shows vein-like connections, in purple, spreading across galaxies connecting celestial bodies.

Study: Early dark energy could resolve cosmology’s two biggest puzzles

September 13, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Pappalardo Fellows, Postdocs, Astrophysics Theory
AI generated image of neural network

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

September 11, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students
3 by 3 grid of headshots of 2024-25 MLK Scholars

MIT welcomes nine MLK Scholars for 2024-25

September 11, 2024
Categories: In The News, Visiting Faculty
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