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Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
The cosmic boundary, perhaps caused by a young Jupiter or an emerging wind, likely shaped the composition of infant planets. Read this on MIT News In the early solar system,...
Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids
On Saturday morning, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a 12-year, nearly 4-billion-mile mission to explore some of the oldest objects in the...
Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet during giant impact
Young planetary systems generally experience extreme growing pains, as infant bodies collide and fuse to form progressively larger planets. In our own solar system, the Earth and moon are thought...
Dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago
To borrow a line from the movie “Jurassic Park:” Dinosaurs do move in herds. And a new study shows that the prehistoric creatures lived in herds much earlier than previously...
MIT collaborates with Biogen on three-year, $7 million initiative to address climate, health, and equity
MIT and Biogen have announced that they will collaborate with the goal to accelerate the science and action on climate change to improve human health. This collaboration is supported by...
Scientists project increased risk to water supplies in South Africa this century
In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa’s second most populous city, came very close to running out of water as the multi-year “Day Zero” drought depleted its reservoirs. Since then, researchers...
Nanograins make for a seismic shift
In Earth’s crust, tectonic blocks slide and grind past each other like enormous ships loosed from anchor. Earthquakes are generated along these fault zones when enough stress builds for a...
Scholarships at MIT: Sheila Baber ’21
(Sheila Baber ’21) Course 12 Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Course 8 Physics From Better World MIT Sheila Baber ’21 spent her early childhood on her grandparents’ farm in South...
Climate modeling confirms historical records showing rise in hurricane activity
When forecasting how storms may change in the future, it helps to know something about their past. Judging from historical records dating back to the 1850s, hurricanes in the North...
Faculty Feature: Camilla Cattania, Assistant Professor of Geophysics, finding what’s at fault in the Earth
From MIT LIP Despite steady advances in the science of earthquake behaviors, we don’t know exactly when or where the next Big Ones will strike. In fact, “earthquake prediction may never...