News + Impact - MIT EAPS

How the search for extraterrestrial life helps sustainability on Earth

February 11, 2026

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

What makes the climate of Venus so hot?

February 3, 2026

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

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

Jupiter’s North Pole showing multiple vortexes.

Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets’ interior details

January 19, 2026

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Sara Seager stands with Markus Rex and Wolfgang Busch, holding their NOMIS Awards.

Sara Seager honored with 2025 NOMIS Award

December 19, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

An image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of the geysers on Enceladus.

NASA selects project investigating ocean worlds and organic molecules in the search for life beyond Earth

December 3, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

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

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 7, 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