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Tom Herring stands in front of a large dam.

Geology Bites: Tom Herring talks High-Precision Geodesy

October 20, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards

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

The pursuit of reliable earthquake forecasting – Camilla Cattania for Physics Today

August 11, 2025

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

A photo of a man in religious attire leaning against a telescope.

Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens: Guy Consolmagno ’74, SM ’75 profiled in the New Yorker

July 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni, In the Media

Scientific American: A Thought Experiment Reveals the Fingerprints of Climate Change Came Early

July 4, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, In the Media

Satellite view of the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring continents with colored swirls superimposed over the ocean indicating distribution of Synechococcus phytoplankton.

NASA StoryMap: MIT Darwin Project ecosystem model explores biogeography of microbial environments

July 2, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Life + Environments, Research

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

May 12, 2025

Categories: In the Media, 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

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

April 1, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

The U.S. research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer photographed from a drone at Thwaites Glacier ice front in February 2019.

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, In the Media

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

A four-panel image. The top two panels are diagrams of Uranus – spheres with gridlines going longitudinally and latitudinally. On the top left, the view from Hubble, the southern pole of the planet faces 3 o’clock. On the top right, the view from New Horizons, the southern pole faces 10 o'clock. The bottom left panel is Hubble's actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The bottom right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

New views of Uranus provide new perspective on the search for exoplanets

October 9, 2024

Categories: In the Media, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

July 17, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

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

May 30, 2024

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

America’s Maps Are Full of Racial Slurs—and That Needs to Change

March 30, 2021

Categories: In the Media, Students + Postdocs

Racist Slurs in Place-Names Have to Go, Say Geoscientists

March 19, 2021

Categories: In the Media, Students + Postdocs

Earth Day 50th Anniversary – Spotlight on Students

April 22, 2020

Categories: In the Media, Students + Postdocs