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The crater-covered far side of the moon.

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Photo of the sun peeking through orange smoggy air over a hillside, with Los Angeles in the background.

Study: Climate change may make it harder to reduce smog in some regions

May 22, 2025

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

A microscopic image of SAR11, a type of pelagibacterales, which look like worms.

New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle

May 22, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Three different rock core samples

3Q’s: Demystifying Earth’s Ancient Nitrogen Cycle

May 16, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Swimming tuna.

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

April 1, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

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

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 05, 2025

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

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

February 24, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

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

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

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

Daniel Ortega-Arroyo earns Journal of Structural Geology Student Author of the Year

September 30, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Students + Postdocs

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Earth and its atmosphere from space.

Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone

August 02, 2024

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

A photo portrait of Phoebe Lin holding a flute.

Phoebe Lin ’24 awarded 2024 Louis Sudler Prize for excellence in music

June 17, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Gosha Geogdzhayev named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar

April 23, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Student Spotlight: Emma Bulllock on researching extreme environments

April 19, 2024

Categories: Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Katie Kempff sits outside on a balcony in nice weather, smiling at the camera.

Course 1-12 spotlight: From space to sustainability, Katie Kempff changes to new MIT climate major

April 12, 2024

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Lauren Aguilar sits on a bench and smiles at the camera, surrounded by bamboo.

Course 1-12 spotlight: Lauren Aguilar finds her path to energy systems

April 5, 2024

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Ananda Santos Figueiredo sits at a table in front of a white board with math equations on it, smiling at the camera.

Course 1-12 spotlight: Ananda Santos Figueiredo pivots from astrophysics to climate change

March 22, 2024

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs