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Becca Mastrola sits on a rock formation and smiles at the camera.

Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone

May 2, 2023

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

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

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

MIT welcomes two Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellows for 2022

March 31, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Life + Environments, Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

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

March 15, 2022

Categories: Planets, Research

Space y Chile: communicating planetary science

February 11, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Events + Outreach, Planets

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