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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

Richard Teague named Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 2026 AAS meeting

March 11, 2026

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

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

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

An image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of the geysers on Enceladus.

NASA selects project investigating ocean worlds and organic molecules in the search for life beyond Earth

December 3, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Artist’s illustration of early Earth with fire, lava, volcanos, and meteors.

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”

October 14, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, located in a mountain setting with many stars at night.

MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope

September 30, 2025

Categories: Planets

Pope Leo XIV sits in the center of a front row with three other Vatican officials; behind him are six rows of students and scientists involved with the Vatican Observatory Summer School program.

Student perspective: what does one wear to meet the Pope?

September 15, 2025

Categories: Planets, Students + Postdocs

Colorful rings surrounding a star with lines weaving up and down through them.

Astronomers reveal planet-building’s secret ingredient: magnetism

September 12, 2025

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

An artist’s rendition of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e as it transits in front of its host star.

New study finds habitable-zone planet unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere

September 8, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three colorful watery planets in space.

Planets without water could still produce certain liquids, a new study finds

August 11, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Planets, Research

Two students confer in front of an array of monitors with astronomy data.

New student optical “astronomy hub” ready for remote observations

August 6, 2025

Categories: Community, Planets, Students + Postdocs

The crater-covered far side of the moon.

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Sara Seager on looking for alien life in the clouds of Venus – Toronto Life Magazine

May 12, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Fifteen protoplanetary disks of various structures, some with gaps, rings, and spirals

New research, data advances understanding of early planetary formation

May 6, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research

Ben Weiss elected to the National Academy of Sciences

April 29, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Julien de Wit is talking with Artem Burdanov while he types at a computer.

Julien De Wit and Artem Burdanov talk planetary defense on WCVB’s Chronicle

April 2, 2025

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

Asteroids and the outer planets: Richard Binzel hangs out with Star Talk Radio

April 1, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

Jess Speedie sounds outside with one of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) dishes behind her.

EAPS welcomes 2025 Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow Jess Speedie

March 27, 2025

Categories: Planets, Students + Postdocs