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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

Side-by-side headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay.

Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay appointed to named professorships

February 12, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background.

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

February 6, 2025

Categories: Faculty, Profile

David McGee named head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

February 5, 2025

Categories: Community

On the left, an image of fiber optic cables plugged into a data center rack. On the right, a photo of Hilary Chang and John Morgante posing by a computer set up in a room filled with wires

How telecommunications cables can image the ground beneath us

February 4, 2025

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Michael Person stands at the front of a small lecture hall with a presentation behind him about the 2025 MIT Astronomy Field Camp.

MIT Astronomy Field Camp students share their scientific results at the IAC

January 27, 2025

Categories: Community

Side-by-side portraits of Yanchong (Karen) Zheng and Sai Ravela.

Sai Ravela earns J-WAFS grant for solutions-oriented sustainability project in India

January 13, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate

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

Headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Shuhei Ono

Oliver Jagoutz named new director of ERL; Shuhei Ono to take over as chair of PGGG

January 6, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty

Cartoony illustration of a large green bean-shaped Prochlorococcus shedding bits of itself, as pink SAR11 happily sleep and eat.

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

January 3, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

EAPS alumnus R. Lawrence Edwards ’76 awarded National Medal of Science for climate insights

January 3, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Awards + Promotions, Community

What would happen if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapses? How likely is it?

January 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty

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

A green hydrogen production pipeline.

New climate chemistry model finds “non-negligible” climate impacts of potential hydrogen fuel leakage

December 06, 2024

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research

EAPS presentation schedule at AGU 2024

December 4, 2024

Categories: Community

Headshots of Josephine Carstensen and David McGee

Q&A: Transforming research through global collaborations

December 2, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

On left, a rural setting with grass and greenery. On right, brown flood water shows excessive flooding.

New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding

November 25, 2024

Categories: Climate, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

What if it works? Podcast: Rising to the climate challenge

November 20, 2024

Categories: Faculty, Health of the Planet

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

Ask MIT Climate: How much can a large volcanic eruption affect the climate?

November 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Natural Hazards, Research