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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, 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

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 07, 2025

Categories: In the Media, 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

Swirling black hole with light bursting from middle, and planets and asteroids around it.

Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system’s origins

November 6, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

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

Photo illustration of a spacecraft with large solar panels hovering over a reddish striped moon with planet Jupiter in the background.

Q&A: How the Europa Clipper will set cameras on a distant icy moon

October 15, 2024

Categories: 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

Nicole Xike Nie awarded 2025 Nier Prize

October 2, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty, Planets

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

September 25, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

a picture of the star AB Aurigae; it has a spiraling blue center with a red ring surrounding it.

3 Questions: Evidence for planetary formation through gravitational instability

September 4, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

Photo shows the rover’s long arm and the rocky brown Martian soil.

Study: Rocks from Mars’ Jezero Crater, which likely predate life on Earth, contain signs of water

August 14, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Moon dust falls through the hands of an astronaut.

Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

August 2, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

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, Planets, Research

The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.

Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves

June 19, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research