With Perseverance and a little MOXIE, MIT is going to Mars
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
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Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core.
A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation.
“Light squeezer” reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection.
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”
Neptune-sized planet may be remnant core of a much larger planet.
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected.
Danielle Frostig, a physics graduate student, is developing an instrument to study how the heaviest elements in the universe are produced.
Discovery made through the Disk Detective project could help the search for new planets.
After more than 44 years of providing satellite communications, the LES-9 workhorse retires from service with a record of groundbreaking technical achievement.
MIT scientists identify first magmas generated in solar system’s building blocks, unexpectedly answering questions about meteorites and formation of rocky planets.
MIT research proposal for rendezvous missions with interstellar objects selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
MIT Haystack Observatory researchers coauthor a paper announcing the observation of a surprising structure in a distant quasar, 3C 279.
Longtime MIT physicist and mentor created instruments that advanced high-energy physics, including the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the J particle.