Study finds the swirling gas disk disappeared within the solar system’s first 4 million years.

An LA-area alumna is on board for the new space race.

Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight.

Fellowship to provide scientists the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.

MIT scientists and alumni well represented on newly announced NASA asteroid missions Psyche and Lucy.

Author and executive producer Margot Lee Shetterly explores inspiration for the film; MIT guest speakers provide additional historical context.

Plasma Science and Fusion Center researcher figures out the kink in the crab.

Upgrades make detectors more sensitive to gravitational waves.

Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.

Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.