Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, represent a quarter of NASA's astronaut candidate Class of 2017.

MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.

Media Lab graduate student selected from over 7,300 entrants, awarded $50,000 scholarship in contest inspired by the film "Hidden Figures."

Senior Sarah Hensley aims to improve Earth's most advanced humanoid robot, in advance of its trip to the Red Planet.

Sydney Do, a PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is adding authenticity to a virtual Mars experience.

Team led by Professor Russ Tedrake of CSAIL to develop algorithms for 6-foot-tall “Valkyrie” robot to travel to Mars and beyond.

Faculty and students grapple with 3-D printing a habitable structure on Mars.

For a piloted mission to Mars, fueling up on the moon could streamline cargo by 68 percent.

MIT aerospace and systems engineer will assume agency’s No. 2 post upon President Obama's signing.