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With Perseverance, MIT teams prepare for Mars rover landing
February 17, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/superearth20180412-16-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Research updates from TESS: Hunting for worlds beyond our solar system
February 11, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TOI-1233-planets-tess-mit-00-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
January 28, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Lunar-Dyn-1_0_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
3 Questions: Accounting for the ancient moon’s missing magnetism
December 7, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Cahoy-01Hero-Press_0-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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OSIRIS-REx finds asteroid Bennu with pieces of Vesta
September 21, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Pi-Planet-01-PRESS_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Astronomers discover an Earth-sized “pi planet” with a 3.14-day orbit
September 21, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MIT-Venus-Phosphine-02-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus
September 14, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/venus_-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
“Lava lamp” microbes in the clouds of Venus
August 25, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/natalia-at-mars2020-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
An MIT Send-off for Mars 2020
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