Neutron star collisions are a “goldmine” of heavy elements, study finds

Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 25, 2021 ~7 min

Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake

The findings include signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders downstream into the lakebed.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 7, 2021 ~7 min


Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time

Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 1, 2021 ~7 min

Aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, MOXIE creates oxygen on Mars

Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.

Nancy Kotary | Sara Cody | Haystack Observatory | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics • mit
April 21, 2021 ~3 min

MIT astronomers discover new galaxy clusters hiding in plain sight

Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say.

Kelso Harper | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research • mit
March 26, 2021 ~6 min

Researchers improve efficiency of next-generation solar cell material

Reducing internal losses could pave the way to low-cost perovskite-based photovoltaics that match silicon cells’ output.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 24, 2021 ~9 min

Reductions in CFC-11 emissions put ozone recovery back on track

Scientists observe reduction in emissions of banned ozone-depleting chemical after unexpected spike.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 10, 2021 ~7 min

Geologists produce new timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic climate changes

The record shows ancient temperature variations coinciding with shifts in the planet’s biodiversity.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 1, 2021 ~8 min


Astronomers detect extended dark matter halo around ancient dwarf galaxy

Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 1, 2021 ~6 min

Search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse comes up empty

Results significantly narrow the range of possible places to find the hypothetical dark matter particles.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 21, 2021 ~7 min

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