One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long

A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 23, 2021 ~7 min

Nanograins make for a seismic shift

A new study finds curious properties of tiny crystals hold clues to earthquake formation.

EAPS • mit
Nov. 22, 2021 ~5 min


Astronomers detect signs of an atmosphere stripped from a planet during giant impact

Such planetary smashups are likely common in young solar systems, but they haven’t been directly observed.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 20, 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

Zeroing in on the origins of Earth’s “single most important evolutionary innovation”

A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 28, 2021 ~7 min

Geologists take Earth’s inner temperature using erupted sea glass

The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 29, 2021 ~6 min

Study highlights long road toward gender parity in the geosciences

Researchers find improvement in relative retention of women but predict decades of sustained effort are required to achieve gender parity.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 16, 2021 ~8 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


Astronomers discover an Earth-sized “pi planet” with a 3.14-day orbit

The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 21, 2020 ~7 min

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

Evidence indicates phosphine, a gas associated with living organisms, is present in the habitable region of Venus’ atmosphere.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 14, 2020 ~10 min

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