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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

Decoding the mystery of water on Mars with Gaia Stucky de Quay – MIT Alumni Forum

March 07, 2025

Categories: Events + Outreach, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets

A close up shot of an asteroid sample suspended in a drop of water on a microscope slide.

Asteroid sample collected by NASA mission contains building blocks of life

February 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research

Side-by-side headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay.

Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay appointed to named professorships

February 12, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Michael Person stands at the front of a small lecture hall with a presentation behind him about the 2025 MIT Astronomy Field Camp.

MIT Astronomy Field Camp students share their scientific results at the IAC

January 27, 2025

Categories: Community

Rendering shows the Perseverance on the rocky brown surface of Mars. The Perseverance resembles a go-cart and has 6 wheels and an arm extending that houses the drill. The top of the Perseverance has a long neck and a camera on top.

PNAS Special Edition – The Scientific Value of Mars Sample Return

January 7, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Planets

Cover of the journal Nature with microscopic view of L chondrite minerals.

EAPS researchers uncover meteorite origins, in Nature

October 17, 2024

Categories: In the Media, Planets, Research

Photo illustration of a spacecraft with large solar panels hovering over a reddish striped moon with planet Jupiter in the background.

Q&A: How the Europa Clipper will set cameras on a distant icy moon

October 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research