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Researchers taking samples from a small pool of water.

When Earth iced over, early life may have sheltered in meltwater ponds

June 19, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Anthony Wong stands at a research poster while explaining it to another person.

3Q’s: Investigating environmental impacts of alternative fuel usage

June 3, 2025

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

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

Fifteen protoplanetary disks of various structures, some with gaps, rings, and spirals

New research, data advances understanding of early planetary formation

May 06, 2025

Categories: Planets, Research

Woman and children walk over sandbag embankment in Bangladesh.

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

April 11, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Swimming tuna.

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

April 1, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, 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 5, 2025

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

A close up shot of an asteroid sample suspended in a drop of water on a microscope slide.

Asteroid sample collected by NASA mission contains building blocks of life

February 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni, Planets, Research

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

Cartoony illustration of a large green bean-shaped Prochlorococcus shedding bits of itself, as pink SAR11 happily sleep and eat.

An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes

January 3, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope shining light on a population of small asteroids.

MIT astronomers find the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt

December 09, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

A green hydrogen production pipeline.

New climate chemistry model finds “non-negligible” climate impacts of potential hydrogen fuel leakage

December 6, 2024

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research

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

Swirling black hole with light bursting from middle, and planets and asteroids around it.

Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system’s origins

November 6, 2024

Categories: Planets, Research

Ask MIT Climate: How much can a large volcanic eruption affect the climate?

November 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Cover of the journal Nature with microscopic view of L chondrite minerals.

EAPS researchers uncover meteorite origins, in Nature

October 17, 2024

Categories: In the Media, Planets, Research

Photo illustration of a spacecraft with large solar panels hovering over a reddish striped moon with planet Jupiter in the background.

Q&A: How the Europa Clipper will set cameras on a distant icy moon

October 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research