Taylor Perron receives 2021 MacArthur Fellowship
In his research, the geomorphologist seeks connections among landscape evolution, biodiversity, and human history.
In his research, the geomorphologist seeks connections among landscape evolution, biodiversity, and human history.
Not just an exoplanet-finder anymore, TESS yields diverse astrophysics results at second science conference.
The results could help scientists unravel the processes underlying plate tectonics.
Researchers find improvement in relative retention of women but predict decades of sustained effort are required to achieve gender parity.
Thanks to an MIT-designed instrument, a NASA mission has produced oxygen on another planet for the first time.
Following touchdown, MOXIE will brew up oxygen while geologists comb for sediments to sample.
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution.
MIT EAPS researchers find the impressive mountain range formed over a series of impacts, not a single event, as previously thought.
Simulations rule out plasmas caused by meteoroid impacts as the source of lunar magnetism, supporting the proposal that the ancient moon generated a core dynamo.
As part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Professor Tanja Bosak helps determine the best samples to bring home for clues about life 4 billion years ago.
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable.
Evidence indicates phosphine, a gas associated with living organisms, is present in the habitable region of Venus’ atmosphere.
By making their own lava and cooled glass, scientists find these materials likely aren’t responsible for the unexpected glow of some exoplanets.
Findings also suggest exoplanets lying within habitable zones may be susceptible to ice ages.
Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core.