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Richard Binzel and Glenn Silva hold a 3D printed plaque depicting Saturn's rings for position on a blank wall.

From the archives: Richard Binzel on corralling the cosmos in the Infinite Corridor

September 25, 2024

Categories: Events + Outreach

Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight

September 25, 2024

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

Jared Bryan: bridging the heavens and Earth through seismology

September 17, 2024

Categories: Planets, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Closeup photo of Ronald Prinn at a lectern

3 Questions: The past, present, and future of sustainability science

September 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

a picture of the star AB Aurigae; it has a spiraling blue center with a red ring surrounding it.

3 Questions: Evidence for planetary formation through gravitational instability

September 4, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Rogier Braakman with the text

Rogier Braakman awarded Hypothesis Fund seed grant

August 28, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments

Photo shows the rover’s long arm and the rocky brown Martian soil.

Study: Rocks from Mars’ Jezero Crater, which likely predate life on Earth, contain signs of water

August 14, 2024

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research

portrait of Noelle Selin

Selin to lead new MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy

August 5, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments

Earth and its atmosphere from space.

Scientists find a human “fingerprint” in the upper troposphere’s increasing ozone

August 2, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Moon dust falls through the hands of an astronaut.

Scientists pin down the origins of the moon’s tenuous atmosphere

August 2, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

Exterior of the two-story glass Building 55 atrium extends from the concrete 21-story Building 54 tower, reflecting the sky and trees.

A bright and airy hub for climate at MIT

August 1, 2024

Categories: Community

Andrew Babbin named a mission director for the Climate Project at MIT

July 24, 2024

Categories: Climate, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Photo of the dimly lit interior of a large factory.

China-based emissions of three potent climate-warming greenhouse gases spiked in past decade

July 18, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

July 17, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

Graphic depicting the idea of a more sustainable world.

Upgrading computational tools for sustainable development

July 16, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

Pictures of Taylor and Lisa Perron next to each other, with the cover of the children’s picture book “All the Rocks We Love” superimposed on top.

Q&A: Helping young readers explore curiosity about rocks through discovery and play

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

Alt text: The James Webb Space Telescope points to several TRAPPIST planets scattered on top of a map background with a red dotted line leading around them.

Roadmap details how to improve exoplanet exploration using the JWST

July 15, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research

A portrait of Susan Solomon next to a photo of the cover of her book,

Q&A: What past environmental success can teach us about solving the climate crisis

July 12, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers

Cargo ship in ocean.

Study finds health risks in switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel

July 11, 2024

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Research

Black spheres with the letter “C” on them, representing carbon molecules, float out of the water.

Study: Weaker ocean circulation could enhance CO2 buildup in the atmosphere

July 8, 2024

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research