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- 23 Sep 2019, 13:00 UTC Computing and the search for new planets
- 20 Sep 2019, 18:00 UTC Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2019
- 17 Sep 2019, 03:59 UTC 3Q: Scientists shave estimate of neutrino’s mass in half
- 12 Sep 2019, 17:25 UTC TESS team is awarded NASA's Silver Achievement Medal
- 12 Sep 2019, 13:29 UTC Scientists detect tones in the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time
- 6 Sep 2019, 15:58 UTC Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
- 5 Sep 2019, 19:00 UTC Taking the next giant leaps
- 3 Sep 2019, 08:39 UTC For first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
- 20 Aug 2019, 12:59 UTC A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
- 20 Aug 2019, 04:00 UTC Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements
- 19 Aug 2019, 15:00 UTC Rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet is missing an atmosphere
- 16 Aug 2019, 03:59 UTC Data-mining for dark matter
- 15 Aug 2019, 20:35 UTC John Ball, longtime Haystack Observatory scientist, dies at 83
- 9 Aug 2019, 17:25 UTC The music of the spheres
- 7 Aug 2019, 03:59 UTC Astrophysical shock phenomena reproduced in the laboratory
- 29 Jul 2019, 14:59 UTC TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate “sub-Neptune”
- 29 Jul 2019, 09:54 UTC Scientists look to synthetic biology and 3-D printing for life support in space
- 23 Jul 2019, 20:00 UTC New faces in the School of Science faculty
- 18 Jul 2019, 13:23 UTC Behind the scenes of the Apollo mission at MIT
- 8 Jul 2019, 18:59 UTC Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
- 20 Jun 2019, 13:00 UTC 3Q: Julien de Wit on searching for red worlds in the northern skies
- 19 Jun 2019, 15:00 UTC Four 2019 40 Under 40 award winners are from Lincoln Laboratory
- 17 Jun 2019, 13:00 UTC How to detect life on Mars
- 11 Jun 2019, 03:59 UTC Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed
- 31 May 2019, 19:45 UTC Maria Zuber awarded the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize in Planetary Sciences
- 20 May 2019, 17:00 UTC MIT team places second in 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
- 10 May 2019, 21:15 UTC MIT, Blue Origin to cooperate on sending research experiment to the moon
- 8 May 2019, 04:00 UTC Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
- 7 May 2019, 16:00 UTC Tissue chip headed to International Space Station for osteoarthritis study
- 6 May 2019, 18:00 UTC A sustainability rating for space debris
- 3 May 2019, 18:50 UTC Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back
- 2 May 2019, 12:00 UTC LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
- 2 May 2019, 11:59 UTC 3 Questions: Salvatore Vitale on LIGO’s latest detections
- 1 May 2019, 16:30 UTC Quantum measurement could improve gravitational wave detection sensitivity
- 16 Apr 2019, 04:00 UTC TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
- 10 Apr 2019, 13:00 UTC Working together as a “virtual telescope,” observatories around the world produce first dire...
- 2 Apr 2019, 14:12 UTC School of Science announces 2019 Infinite Mile Awards
- 1 Apr 2019, 04:00 UTC 3 Questions: Lisa Barsotti on the new and improved LIGO
- 27 Mar 2019, 17:00 UTC Lighting up exoplanets
- 15 Mar 2019, 19:28 UTC MIT celebrates 50th anniversary of historic moon landing
- 13 Mar 2019, 03:00 UTC Microgravity research after the International Space Station
- 4 Feb 2019, 09:59 UTC Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
- 30 Jan 2019, 05:00 UTC Engineers program marine robots to take calculated risks
- 29 Jan 2019, 17:10 UTC MIT’s REXIS and Bennu’s watery surface
- 23 Jan 2019, 16:00 UTC 3Q: On the significance of Ultima Thule
- 10 Jan 2019, 13:00 UTC Robert Simcoe named director of MIT Kavli Institute
- 9 Jan 2019, 22:14 UTC X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star
- 9 Jan 2019, 20:00 UTC Revolutionary radio telescope detects bevy of fast radio bursts
- 9 Jan 2019, 18:00 UTC MIT adds computational Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences to its PhD offerings
- 9 Jan 2019, 18:00 UTC Astronomers observe evolution of a black hole as it wolfs down stellar
