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The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.

Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves

June 19, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

Side-by-side headshots of Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer, and Sara Seager.

Sara Seager one of three MIT scientists named Kavli Prize Laureates

June 12, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

May 30, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Planets

A night-time photo shows a white, cylindrical observatory with the roof open part-way, in a rural landscape. The sky is full of the Milky Way and stars.

Newly discovered Earth-sized planet may lack an atmosphere

May 15, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

A large bright yellow star is in the top left. On bottom right, a planet in blue and purple moves quickly, and whisps of clouds trail it.

Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

May 14, 2024

Categories: 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 4, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

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

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 3, 2023

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

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

Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone

May 02, 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