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Watch the universe emerge from the dark ages, with Lumina

New simulation tracks dark matter, galaxies, stars, and cosmic structures over the universe’s first 2 billion years, in greater detail than ever before.

October 26, 2026
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

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Discovery Alert: First Six-star System Where All Six Stars Undergo Eclipses

Categories: In The News, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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“Hanging it over the edge”: Remembering astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair PhD ’76

Categories: Profile, In Remembrance, Students, URM STEM
An artist’s rendering of five planets orbiting TOI-1233.

TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

Categories: In The News, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

3 Questions: Ernest Moniz on the future of climate and energy under the Biden-Harris administration

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Shirley Ann Jackson ’68 PhD ’73 to receive AAPT 2021 Oersted Medal

Categories: Awards/Honors, Students
Illustration of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system uncovered in TESS data with an assist from AI

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

How chess plays out at MIT

Categories: In The News, Students

Four MIT scientists honored with 2021 National Academy of Sciences awards

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment

Search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse comes up empty

Categories: Research, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment

Transforming quantum computing’s promise into practice

Categories: Profile, Faculty, Quantum Information Science, Condensed Matter Experiment

Dr. Andrea Ghez ’87, Only the Fourth Woman to Win the Nobel Prize for Physics, Shows the Rarity of High-Achieving Women in Science

Categories: In The News, Students, WiSTEM

Precise measurements of cluster formation in outer neutron ‘skin’ of a range of tin isotopes

Categories: Research, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
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