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A red sphere, left, sucks energy out of a brown sphere, causing a patch on the red sphere to glow white hot.

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

October 5, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Gage Coon portrait, seated, with two yellow chairs in foreground.

Gage Coon: An Earth scientist exploring the power of microbes

August 28, 2026

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Natural Resources, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Vintage-inspired collage shows Earth’s ozone layer, in yellow, hit by sun rays. Mod-style stars represent ozone and some are being destroyed by the sun rays.

Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole

June 29, 2026

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

A portrait of Jess Speedie

Jess Speedie recognized by IAU with 2025 PhD Prize Honourable Mention

June 26, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Perrin Davidson stands, posing, against an indoor angled pillar.

Characterizing Earth’s damping mechanisms

June 24, 2026

Categories: Health of the Planet, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Angelina Serafini showing off her scientific poster, titled

Angelina Serafini receives 2026 Dwornik Award for Best Graduate Poster Presentation

June 9, 2026

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Commencement 2026 Roundup: Degrees Earned

May 29, 2026

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Meet the EAPS Majors: Class of 2026

May 29, 2026

Categories: Community, Students + Postdocs

Learning to teach, learning to discover

May 22, 2026

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

A rendering of a planetary atmosphere, showing a jet stream in shades of maroon.

New algorithm helps redefine our understanding of jet streams

May 4, 2026

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

A cartoon cereal box is called “Phyt-O’s: the phytoplankton of the future” and shows a happy plankton with a bowl of plankton. Bubbles say “Carbs!” and “Protein?!”

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

March 31, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, 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 with Vincent Cooper: Refining climate warming projections by studying the past

March 20, 2026

Categories: Climate, Research, Students + Postdocs

Ocean flood with floating dust.

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink

March 09, 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

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

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