Alumna and former MIT professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton is working with MIT faculty in her role as principal investigator for NASA's upcoming Psyche mission.

Module would serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant.

Nuclear Science and Engineering Associate Professor Nuno Loureiro ponders the origins of magnetic fields.

New laser technique identifies the makeup of space debris, from painted shards to Teflon.

Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, represent a quarter of NASA's astronaut candidate Class of 2017.

Nearly 3 billion light years from Earth, the black holes are the farthest ever detected.

Space Systems Engineering students design a close-range mission to a giant asteroid that will fly by Earth in 2029.

Study finds history of Titan’s landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth

Some 40 light-years away, "super-Earth" identified as new target for atmospheric study.

Senior MIT research scientist to speak for international collaboration for gravitational wave detection research.