One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.
Shooting beams of ions at proton clouds may help researchers map the inner workings of neutron stars.
Lesson learned from the CHiPS survey must inform future cluster searches, researchers say.
MIT scientists present exoplanet data at the 237th American Astronomical Society meeting.
Findings suggest the first galaxies in the universe were more massive than previously thought.
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution.
Results significantly narrow the range of possible places to find the hypothetical dark matter particles.
Undergraduate in electrical engineering and computer science contributes to startling new astronomy research.
Findings on short-range nuclear interactions will help scientists investigate neutron stars and heavy radioactive nuclei.
The fast radio bursts are likely generated by a magnetar, the most magnetic type of star in the universe.
Nicholas Demos, a first-generation college graduate and MathWorks Fellow in MIT’s Kavli Institute, is improving our ability to listen to the cosmos.
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable.
Study identifies a transition in the strong nuclear force that illuminates the structure of a neutron star’s core.
New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation.