News + Impact - MIT EAPS

Remote work: MIT’s next-gen planet-hunting telescope scans the night sky alone

November 8, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

In the dark ocean, a cartoon illustration shows a green oval microbe Prochlorococcus eating a dead purple microbe that looks like a Cheeto. A few other microbes appear in background.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

November 3, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Three EAPS faculty members appointed to career development professorships

November 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Leigh Royden, dressed in a burgundy coat jacket, smiles while standing in an out-of-focus white hallway.

Geophysicist Leigh Royden looks at Earth from the top down

October 30, 2022

Categories: Faculty, Life + Environments, Profile

Photo of pedestrians at a tree-lined intersection, all seen through a polluted haze in Anyang City, China

Coordinating climate and air-quality policies to improve public health

October 26, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Research

3-D modeled illustration depicts the DART mission, and shows a boxy spacecraft with blue jets and solar panel wings approaching a bulky meteor.

Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions

October 19, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Perron appointed to named chair; Bosak receives Fundamental Science Investigator Award

October 18, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Return to Mt. Washington: DEAPS 2022 in pictures

October 7, 2022

Categories: Community

The 12-person “The Hunt for Planet B” team poses on the red carpet. The director smiles and holds the Emmy trophy in the center of the shot.

Documentary featuring Professor Sara Seager wins Emmy Award

October 5, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Purple and teal video still details the eddies, mapped using contour lines and color, of the North Pacific Ocean, around a tiny Hawaii, in black.

Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes

October 3, 2022

Categories: Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

MIT astronomy class asks the big-picture questions about the future of our species

September 30, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

A hi-resolution image shows a titled beige Saturn and its rings on a black background

Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon

September 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Image shows, from left to right, how the James Webb grabs light from around a mysterious planet and then interprets data. Data is represented as colorful information.

Study: Astronomers risk misinterpreting planetary signals in JWST data

September 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

A black and white photo of three albatrosses standing together; the one in the middle has it's wings stretched out almost protectively around the other two.

Divorce is more common in albatross couples with shy males, study finds

September 13, 2022

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Research in India: Kaitlyn Przydzial Summer ’22

September 6, 2022

Categories: Students + Postdocs

Ferrari named 2022 AGU Ocean Sciences Harald Sverdrup Lecture recipient

September 6, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

3 Questions: O’Gorman awarded the 2023 Haurwitz Lectureship by the American Meteorological Society

September 2, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Natural Hazards

Frozen

August 24, 2022

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Using seismology for groundwater management

August 22, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Resources, Research

EAPS welcomes Nicole Xike Nie as new faculty

August 18, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty