![Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Binzel-meteroite-birthday-01-575x0-c-default.jpg)
News + Impact
![Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Binzel-meteroite-birthday-01-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/JWST-Roadmap_01-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MIT_titans-lakes-erosion-01-PRESS-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves
June 19, 2024![Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-mit-kavli-prize-web-size-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MIT-Earth-Sized-Planet-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MIT-PuffPlanet-A1-580x0-c-default.jpg)
![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MIT-OldestRocks-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIT-AcidLife-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIT-Orienting-Mars-01-press_0_resized-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin
October 11, 2023![A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-Asteroid-Return-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth
September 25, 2023![Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Rivers-from-Orbit-01-scaled-580x0-c-default.jpg)
Studying rivers from worlds away
July 10, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Gaia-Stucky-de-Quay-fieldwork_0-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Becca Mastrola sits on a rock formation and smiles at the camera.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/unlocking-age-old-secrets-stone-01-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone
May 2, 2023![The meteorite is dark black and shiny, with a rough texture. A chip of the meteorite is next to it, and a cube says “1 CM” on it.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Meteorite-magnets-01-575x0-c-default.jpg)
A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!
April 20, 2023![A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/3Q-Dart-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/field-camp-2016_24679154612_o-1-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Skylar Larsen sits indoors, arm on railing, with windows and a wire wall in background.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-Skylar-Larsen-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)