Astronomy and Space
Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world’s oceans, and a new MIT...
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MIT’s REXIS and Bennu’s watery surface
January 28, 2019After flying in space for more than two years, NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource...
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3Q: On the significance of Ultima Thule
January 22, 2019After nearly 20 years of planning and 13 years of flight, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft traveled...
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X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star
January 8, 2019On 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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