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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

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

September 25, 2024

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

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

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 + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth’s magnetic field

April 24, 2024

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

Venus in space with multi-colored amino acid molecules in its atmosphere.

Study: Life’s building blocks are surprisingly stable in Venus-like conditions

March 20, 2024

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

Study determines the original orientations of rocks drilled on Mars

March 04, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A group of 13 people pose at night next to a small domed telescope observatory. Mount Teide is visible behind them.

MIT Astronomy Field Camp returns to the Teide Observatory for second year

January 26, 2024

Categories: Students + Postdocs

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, MIT study finds

December 28, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Planets, Research

EAPS UROP Daniel Kurlander named a winner of the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data

October 23, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin

October 11, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

September 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.

Studying rivers from worlds away

July 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

3 Questions: New Faculty Interview with Gaia Stucky de Quay

May 03, 2023

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

The meteorite is dark black and shiny, with a rough texture. A chip of the meteorite is next to it, and a cube says “1 CM” on it.

A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!

April 20, 2023

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A bright bluish light, which is debris, shoots across the black background, with light trailing behind it.

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

March 2, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

MIT Astronomy Field Camp to start again in 2023

November 23, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

Skylar Larsen sits indoors, arm on railing, with windows and a wire wall in background.

Expanding horizons through astronomy and art

November 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

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

November 8, 2022

Categories: Planets, 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