Particle-scale phenomenon akin to the swerving of a curveball could allow selective separation of suspended nanomaterials.

Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.

Samuel Birch, a new Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellow at MIT, will investigate the surfaces of outer solar system objects.

Technique may enable molecule-based quantum computing.

MIT engineers devise a decision map to identify the best mission type to deflect an incoming asteroid.

Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core.

Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.

MIT and University of Colorado researchers are collaborating on an experiment to be sent to the International Space Station.

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation.