System for locking satellites together, initially developed for master’s thesis, to get first space test.

Spacecraft’s close-up images reveal a complex, frozen world.

MIT scientists assist as a NASA mission chases Pluto’s shadow to catch details of its atmosphere.

A combination of exercise and artificial gravity may lessen negative effects of weightlessness in space.

New model may predict cyclone activity on other planets.

Draining lakes are unlikely to increase the Greenland ice sheet’s contribution to sea-level rise.

Startup’s software, designed to plan NASA space missions, now drives more effective online advertising.

In visit to MIT, NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle urges women and girls to dream big.

With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.

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