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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

Ben Weiss elected to the National Academy of Sciences

April 29, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

Saverio Cambioni, Jeffery Scott recipients of School of Science 2025 Infinite Expansion Awards

April 18, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Tim Brothers, Brenda Carbone recipients of School of Science 2025 Infinite Mile Award

April 18, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Woman and children walk over sandbag embankment in Bangladesh.

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

April 11, 2025

Categories: Natural Hazards, 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

Swimming tuna.

Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find

April 01, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Asteroids and the outer planets: Richard Binzel hangs out with Star Talk Radio

April 1, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty

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

The U.S. research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer photographed from a drone at Thwaites Glacier ice front in February 2019.

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty, Health of the Planet, In the Media

How do we know what the Earth’s climate was like millions of years ago?

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty

EAPS Alumna Carolyn Ruppel named deputy director of science and technology of the MIT Energy Initiative

March 12, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Decoding the mystery of water on Mars with Gaia Stucky de Quay – MIT Alumni Forum

March 07, 2025

Categories: Events + Outreach, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets

TIL Climate Podcast: Hasn’t the climate changed before?

March 6, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty

An image from the ozone layer in September 2024 is in front of smaller images showing the evolution of the ozone layer from 1979-2018.

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

March 5, 2025

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

Darlene Ketten SM ’79 is making waves in hearing research—from whales to humans

February 28, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Brent Minchew on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 14: Putting a glacier in its place

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty, Natural Hazards

EAPS senior Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli one of three 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars for MIT

February 24, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

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