

Astronomy and Space
Professor and astrophysicist Sara Seager appointed officer to the Order of Canada
MIT’s Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences Sara Seager has been named an officer of...
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3 Questions: Rona Oran and Benjamin Weiss on the ancient moon’s missing magnetism
December 21, 2020Today, the moon lacks a global magnetic field, but this wasn’t always the case. Spacecraft measurements...
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A technique to sift out the universe’s first gravitational waves
December 8, 2020In the moments immediately following the Big Bang, the very first gravitational waves rang out. The...
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Field geology at a distance
December 6, 2020Life is shaped by the environment in which it lives. When looking at an organism today,...
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Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites
December 2, 2020According to Space-Track.org, approximately 21,000 objects of human origin are orbiting Earth, and about 1,500 of...
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3 Questions: Using fabric to “listen” to space dust
November 24, 2020Earlier this month a team of MIT researchers sent samples of various high-tech fabrics, some with...
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Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
November 17, 2020The voxels are assembled from flat frame pieces of injection-molded polymers, then combined into three-dimensional shapes...
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3 Questions: Hsin-Yu Chen on treading lightly when dating the universe
November 12, 2020We’re not quite sure how old we are — cosmologically, that is. The main methods scientists...