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How the search for extraterrestrial life helps sustainability on Earth

February 11, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Earth, with layers of atmosphere. Molecules float in the layers.

A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule

March 24, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

A smartphone screen showing a World Meteorological Organization state of global climate warming graph.

3 Questions: Refining climate warming projections by studying the past

March 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

A woman with two dogs step into a pond to cool off.

Boston Globe: How might climate change affect Cambridge and Somerville?

March 19, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

New study reveals hidden “chemical currency” fueling the ocean’s carbon cycle

March 18, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

CNN: New data shows asteroid 2024 YR4 will narrowly miss the moon

March 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Planets

An asteroid speeds towards the moon.

3 Questions: Fortifying our planetary defenses

March 12, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Map of a cyclone track.

Eos: Slow atmospheric circulations shape storm tracks and wave-breaking patterns

March 11, 2026

Categories: Climate, In the Media, Research

Richard Teague named Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 2026 AAS meeting

March 11, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Ocean flood with floating dust.

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink

March 9, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

X-ray view of carbonate minerals deposited within a basalt core.

X-raying rocks reveals their carbon-storing capacity

March 6, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three photos show: gigantic plume rising from ground; a vast valley on fire; and a satellite view of a giant plume arising from the ocean.

Study reveals climatic fingerprints of wildfires and volcanic eruptions

February 23, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

Roadway buckled by earthquake damage.

New study unveils the mechanism behind “boomerang” earthquakes

February 18, 2026

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Lyle Nelson named Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor

February 17, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments

How the search for extraterrestrial life helps sustainability on Earth

February 11, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

A minimalist evolutionary tree in front of stylized cyanobacteria.

Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere

February 6, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Images from experiments and graphs demonstrating simultaneous optical, mechanical, and acoustic measurements revealing brittle microcracking and crystal-plastic twinning in calcite generate distinguishable acoustic signals.

Eos: Visualizing and hearing the brittle–plastic transition

February 3, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

Group photo of MIT students and IAC-ULL PhD students together with researchers and teaching staff, following the joint scientific conference held at the University of La Laguna.

MIT holds fourth astronomy camp at the Teide Observatory

February 2, 2026

Categories: Community, In the Media, Planets, Students + Postdocs

Two presenters at the front of a crowded room giving a lecture.

CS3 students and postdocs present lecture series on climate science and policy

January 26, 2026

Categories: Climate, Community, Students + Postdocs

Jupiter’s North Pole showing multiple vortexes.

Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets’ interior details

January 19, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs