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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 22, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics

September 24, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Students & Alumni, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
Artistic impression of Venus

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

September 14, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Albert Einstein in his office

Could Einstein Get Published Today?

September 24, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus
MIT dome in Spring

School of Science appoints 12 faculty members to named professorships

September 11, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Condensed Matter Experiment, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
MIT dome in Spring

Four from MIT awarded 2021 New Horizons in Physics and New Frontiers in Mathematics prizes

September 10, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory

MIT-led team to develop software to help forecast space storms

September 10, 2020

Winners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology Award recognized for their innovations

September 9, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory, Atomic Physics

School of Science grows by 10

September 8, 2020
Categories: Faculty/Emeritus

Laser-focused: Four MIT students foster new insights into inertial confinement fusion

September 3, 2020

MIT hosts seven distinguished MLK Professors and Scholars for 2020-21

September 2, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, URM STEM, Visiting Faculty
Graphical depiction of two molecules on a train track

Scientists discover new rules about “runaway” transcription

September 2, 2020
Categories: Research, Students & Alumni, Biophysics
Black holes merging

An unexpected origin story for a lopsided black hole merger

September 2, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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