White House names Daniel Hastings to space advisory group
National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group will guide the Biden-Harris administration on space preservation and industry.
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National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group will guide the Biden-Harris administration on space preservation and industry.
Lincoln Laboratory’s Agile MicroSat will be the first small satellite to demonstrate long-duration, low-altitude flight with autonomous maneuvering.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
Lincoln Laboratory’s TeraByte InfraRed Delivery system sent data from a satellite to Earth at 100 Gbps — a rate that will transform future science missions.
The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
New observations show the deepest parts of the quasar's plasma jet in a project led by MIT Haystack Observatory.
Whether spending late nights at the observatory or working on animated films, senior Skylar Larsen is reaching for the stars.
Astronomers have found a way to determine an asteroid’s interior structure based on how its spin changes during a close encounter with Earth.
“The Hunt for Planet B” follows Seager and others on their search for extraterrestrial life; three other nominated films feature MIT affiliates.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
Honor recognizes top graduate students on course to change the face of the aerospace and defense industry.
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere.
Aeronautics and astronautics PhD candidate George Lordos develops technologies to enable life on Mars.