News + Impact - MIT EAPS

EAPS Scientists talk planetary defense on GBH’s The Curiosity Desk

March 31, 2026

Categories: In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

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

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

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

Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope shining light on a population of small asteroids.

MIT astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt

December 9, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Alt text: The James Webb Space Telescope points to several TRAPPIST planets scattered on top of a map background with a red dotted line leading around them.

Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the JWST

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

May 30, 2024

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

A night-time photo shows a white, cylindrical observatory with the roof open part-way, in a rural landscape. The sky is full of the Milky Way and stars.

Newly discovered Earth-sized planet may lack an atmosphere

May 15, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

A large bright yellow star is in the top left. On bottom right, a planet in blue and purple moves quickly, and whisps of clouds trail it.

Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

May 14, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

Portraits of Julien de Wit, Matěj Peč, and David McGee edited to be side-by-side

Three EAPS Professors promoted

February 6, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 28, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

MIT Astronomy Field Camp to start again in 2023

November 23, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

Remote work: MIT’s next-gen planet-hunting telescope scans the night sky alone

November 8, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft with blue jets and solar panel wings approaching a bulky meteor.

Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions

October 19, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

MIT astronomy class asks the big-picture questions about the future of our species

September 30, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

Image shows, from left to right, how the James Webb grabs light from around a mysterious planet and then interprets data. Data is represented as colorful information.

Study: Astronomers risk misinterpreting planetary signals in JWST data

September 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a planet? Nope, just a star

March 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Astronomers discover an Earth-sized “pi planet” with a 3.14-day orbit

September 21, 2020

Categories: Planets, Research