Professor Sara Seager previews a new era of discovery as a leader of the TESS mission, which is expected to find some 20,000 extrasolar planets.

Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.

Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.

Large concentrations of sulfites and bisulfites in shallow lakes may have set the stage for Earth’s first biological molecules.

Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa and AeroAstro Professor Dava Newman share experiences as leaders of the U.S. space program.

Machine-learning system uses physics principles to augment data from NASA crowdsourcing project.

Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.

MIT's Mark Vogelsberger and an international astrophysics team have created a new model pointing to black holes’ role in galaxy formation.

The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative shares results and next steps from its first zero gravity research mission.

Grad students Alexa Aguilar and Arthur J. Brown receive honor that recognizes outstanding student academic performance, civic contributions, and research.