Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for telescopes investigating distant planets.

Platform offers the precision that shoebox-sized CubeSats need to beam down hefty data packets.

Scientists and engineers will collaborate in a new Climate Modeling Alliance to advance climate modeling and prediction.

MIT Kavli's John Richardson describes MIT's role in the historic passing of the Voyager 2 craft past the heliopause and into the interstellar medium.

High-power, tunable design could be used for chemical detection in outer space, medical imaging, more.

Physics professor brought leadership, resources, and an intellectual focus to the MIT astrophysics faculty and research staff during 15 years at the helm.

System allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.

Mars expert John Grotzinger tells the story of exploration and the search for ancient life on the red planet at the annual Carlson Lecture.