Program users can tinker with landing and path planning scenarios to identify optimal landing sites for Mars rovers.

New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.

Former Astrophysics Division chair discovered radio noise from Jupiter and the first Einstein Ring, and developed tools to map the universe.

American Geophysical Union honors EAPS professor's “outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets.”

Assistant professor in EAPS and colleagues from the University of Liège were honored for groundbreaking planetary system discovery.

MIT’s John Belcher discusses the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere.

Search considered successful “dress rehearsal” for exoplanet hunter TESS.

Discovery adds to evidence suggesting that Mars was at one time habitable.

Exoplanet-seeking satellite developed by MIT swings by moon toward final orbit.