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A variety of sea sponges, some tall and cylindrical, some wide and flat, and some bowl-shaped.

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

September 29, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Solar panel arrays in a field.

MITEI Future Energy Systems Center funds new projects to advance the energy transition

September 17, 2025

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

Scanning electron photomicrograph highlights a region of rock that slipped during a laboratory-induced earthquake.

MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake

September 16, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

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

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing cruise tracks overlaying a temperature gradient of the ocean.

Warming oceans may threaten key oxygen-producing microbe

September 9, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, 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 08, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Ryan Woosley in an orange suit and on a large stretch of snow in Antarctica.

3 Questions: Ryan Woosley on changes in ocean acidity and carbon

September 1, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

Stephanie Dutkiewicz in front of computer display

Research Insight: the role of marine microbial diversity and dynamics in climate models

September 1, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments

Boston skyline with decorative background.

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

August 26, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

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

August 11, 2025

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

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

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

Four from EAPS earn chaired professorships

July 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Tom Herring to chair EAPS Program in Geophysics

July 13, 2025

Categories: Community

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

July 4, 2025

Categories: Health of the Planet, In the Media

Antarctica as seen from space, with coloring depicting ozone recovery.

Tracing persistent ozone-depleting emissions to their source

July 3, 2025

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

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

Portraits of Kristin Bergmann and William Frank

Kristin Bergmann and William Frank promoted

July 1, 2025

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