A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

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

Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.

The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.

The moon sustained twice as many impacts as can be seen on its surface, scientists find.

Just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.

The varied surface suggests a dynamic history, which could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, and a lost rocky mantle.

Two MIT professors and five alumni recognized for outstanding contributions to astronomy research, education, and communication.

By studying the dynamics of plasma turbulence, MIT researchers are helping to solve one of the mysteries of the origins of cosmological magnetic fields.