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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

MIT astronomy class asks the big-picture questions about the future of our species

September 30, 2022

Categories: Community, Planets

A hi-resolution image shows a titled beige Saturn and its rings on a black background

Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon

September 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Image shows, from left to right, how the James Webb grabs light from around a mysterious planet and then interprets data. Data is represented as colorful information.

Study: Astronomers risk misinterpreting planetary signals in JWST data

September 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Porosity of the moon’s crust reveals bombardment history

July 7, 2022

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

A 3D model image of the asteroid Psyche

New maps of asteroid Psyche reveal an ancient world of metal and rock

June 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a planet? Nope, just a star

March 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Astronomer Richard Binzel retires from MIT after 33 years

February 2, 2022

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Profile

NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission carrying MIT student experiment wins Space Foundation award

January 28, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Planets, Students + Postdocs

Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?

December 20, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

“Newer, nimbler, faster”: Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid

December 10, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet during giant impact

October 20, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids

October 18, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions

October 15, 2021

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake

October 7, 2021

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

July 28, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

A rare peek into Apophis

March 31, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

Ancient meteorites reveal how our solar nebula shape-shifted

March 15, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

MIT Faculty Answer Questions about the Mars 2020 Mission

February 17, 2021

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

With Perseverance, MIT teams prepare for Mars rover landing

February 17, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research