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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 27, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Graduate student Michael Calzadilla awarded 2024 NASA Hubble Fellowship

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors, Graduate Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
The columns of Building 7 are visible through green foliage on a sunny Spring day.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024

April 10, 2024
Categories: Awards/Honors
Netta Engelhardt stands near stairway for a portrait. Dramatic diagonal shapes are created by the stairways and glass railings.

Physicist Netta Engelhardt is searching black holes for universal truths

April 9, 2024
Categories: Profile, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
Joanna Chen wears special eclipse glasses and look up, with other people doing the same in background.

MIT community members gather on campus to witness 93 percent totality

April 8, 2024
Categories: In The News, Events, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
An illustration of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in Earth orbit

NASA’s budget cuts for the Chandra X-ray Observatory could leave a gaping hole in the field

April 4, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
A sphere is made of an array of material and, inside, has a blue arrow pointing down and a red dot pointing up. Under the sphere is a yellow grid with a bulbous red hump going up and a blue hump going down.

MIT researchers discover “neutronic molecules”

April 3, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Quantum Information Science
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017

NASA’s new astronauts are excited for April’s total eclipse: ‘I’m going to be that little kid all over again’

March 28, 2024
Categories: In The News, Alumni
A large black hole has a spinning disk around it. It also has a magnetic field represented as an orange cone on top and bottom of the black hole. A tiny black hole punches in and out through the disk as it orbits the larger one. Plumes from the large disk emerge when the tiny black hole travels. The plumes are especially strong in the magnetic fields.

Persistent “hiccups” in a far-off galaxy draw astronomers to new black hole behavior

March 27, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration showing four graphene layers.

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists

March 25, 2024
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Experiment
Portrait of Elizabeth Ng in a gray suit with arms folded. She is shown from the waist up and the background is a wall formed of colored rectangles, many bright green or blue.

Helping Move Medical Research out of the Lab and into the Clinic

March 25, 2024
Categories: Profile, Alumni, WiSTEM

Prof. Edmund Bertschinger shares his perspective on the importance of science activism and diversity in STEM

March 21, 2024
Categories: Q&A, Faculty/Emeritus
Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions

March 20, 2024
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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