Astronomy and Space
MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
An MIT student team took second place for its design of a multilevel greenhouse to be...
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MIT, Blue Origin to cooperate on sending research experiment to the moon
May 9, 2019MIT and Blue Origin have signed a memorandum outlining plans to pursue mutual interests in space...
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Tissue chip headed to International Space Station for osteoarthritis study
May 6, 2019On May 4, a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)-supported tissue-chip system with direct clinical...
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back
May 2, 2019Blast off! MIT made its latest foray into research in space on May 2 via six...
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LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
May 1, 2019The following press release was issued jointly today by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and...
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3 Questions: Salvatore Vitale on LIGO’s latest detections
May 1, 2019It’s been just three weeks since LIGO resumed its hunt for cosmic ripples through space-time, and...
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TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
April 15, 2019NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered its first Earth-sized exoplanet. The planet, named HD...
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Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
February 3, 2019Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world’s oceans, and a new MIT...
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