Going with the flow

A new technique uses remote images to gauge the strength of ancient and active rivers beyond Earth.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
July 10, 2023 ~7 min

A telescope’s last view

Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
May 30, 2023 ~7 min


In a first, astronomers spot a star swallowing a planet

Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
May 3, 2023 ~7 min

Astronomers detect the closest example yet of a black hole devouring a star

The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
April 28, 2023 ~8 min

Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants

J-WAFS researchers are using remote sensing observations to build high-resolution systems to monitor drought.

Carolyn Blais | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab • mit
March 20, 2023 ~8 min

Study: Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

MIT chemists show the Australian wildfires widened the ozone hole by 10 percent in 2020.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 8, 2023 ~8 min

3Q: What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission

Saverio Cambioni discusses new results revealing the redirected asteroid Dimorphos to be a dust-trailing rubble-pile.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
March 2, 2023 ~7 min

Study: Astronomers risk misinterpreting planetary signals in James Webb data

Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 15, 2022 ~7 min


Researchers 3D print sensors for satellites

Cheap and quick to produce, these digitally manufactured plasma sensors could help scientists predict the weather or study climate change.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 27, 2022 ~7 min

Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby

Just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
June 15, 2022 ~7 min

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