Aurora mapping across North America

Haystack Observatory researchers and citizen scientists team up to map the aurora.

Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
Dec. 16, 2024 ~6 min

Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water

New study proposes that some of the minerals seen on Mars today may have formed in liquid CO2 instead of water.

Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
Dec. 4, 2024 ~4 min


International team observes innermost structure of quasar jet

New observations show the deepest parts of the quasar's plasma jet in a project led by MIT Haystack Observatory.

Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
Nov. 22, 2022 ~8 min

MIT’s MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars

Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Aug. 31, 2022 ~7 min

Cracking the case of Arctic sea ice breakup

A distributed sensor network may help researchers identify the physical processes contributing to diminishing sea ice in the planet’s fastest-warming region.

Ariana Tantillo | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
June 1, 2022 ~16 min

Astronomers snap first-ever image of supermassive black hole Sagitarrius A*

The image reveals a glowing, donut-shaped ring at the Milky Way’s heart.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
May 12, 2022 ~8 min

How a sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere

Research from MIT Haystack Observatory finds a stratospheric warming event over Antarctica linked to anomalies in near-Earth space above North America and Europe.

Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
July 22, 2021 ~4 min

Saving the radome

Student-led efforts preserve iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research.

Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
May 7, 2021 ~7 min


Aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, MOXIE creates oxygen on Mars

Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.

Nancy Kotary | Sara Cody | Haystack Observatory | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
April 21, 2021 ~3 min

Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole

New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.

MIT Haystack Observatory • mit
March 24, 2021 ~10 min

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