Astronomy and Space
X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star
On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black...
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Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio bursts
January 8, 2019Scientists at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research are part of a team...
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Astronomers observe evolution of a black hole as it wolfs down stellar
January 8, 2019On March 11, an instrument aboard the International Space Station detected an enormous explosion of X-ray...
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MIT adds computational Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences to its PhD offerings
January 8, 2019The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) has expanded its academic program to...
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TESS discovers its third new planet, with longest orbit yet
January 6, 2019NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system,...
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Tiny satellites could be “guide stars” for huge next-generation telescopes
January 3, 2019There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been...
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Nuno Loureiro: Understanding turbulence in plasmas
January 2, 2019Difficult problems with big payoffs are the life blood of MIT, so it’s appropriate that plasma...
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Terahertz laser for sensing and imaging outperforms its predecessors
December 9, 2018A terahertz laser designed by MIT researchers is the first to reach three key performance goals...
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