Astronaut’s visit to MIT draws capacity crowd as he recounts lunar mission’s “successful failure.”

National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies.

Exoplanet lacks atmosphere, is covered in rivers of magma.

Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins.

Sponges may be source of molecular fossils that significantly predate Cambrian explosion.

MIT physicist developed the concept for LIGO as a teaching exercise.

AeroAstro team turns to MIT crowdsourcing to fund entry in NASA space launch competition.

Some tiny plankton may have big effect on ocean’s carbon storage.

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

MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches a new generation of innovators.