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- 10 Feb 2021, 16:05 UTC Research updates from TESS: Hunting for worlds beyond our solar system
- 3 Feb 2021, 14:45 UTC School of Science presents 2021 Infinite Expansion Awards
- 3 Feb 2021, 00:00 UTC An art lover dreams of space
- 1 Feb 2021, 11:00 UTC Astronomers detect extended dark matter halo around ancient dwarf galaxy
- 28 Jan 2021, 21:14 UTC “Hanging it over the edge”: Remembering astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair
- 28 Jan 2021, 21:06 UTC In Memoriam: Ronald McNair, PhD’76 (Physics)
- 28 Jan 2021, 00:35 UTC TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
- 21 Jan 2021, 00:00 UTC Search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse comes up empty
- 14 Jan 2021, 13:50 UTC Mark Vogelsberger wins 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for simulating a “fuzzy” universe
- 10 Dec 2020, 15:40 UTC Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT launches digital handbook for science editors, onli...
- 9 Dec 2020, 00:00 UTC A technique to sift out the universe’s first gravitational waves
- 19 Nov 2020, 00:27 UTC Anna-Christina Eilers has won three prestigious awards for her thesis research at the Max Pl...
- 17 Nov 2020, 23:56 UTC Cynthia M. Friend Named Incoming President of The Kavli Foundation
- 13 Nov 2020, 14:40 UTC 3 Questions: Hsin-Yu Chen on treading lightly when dating the universe
- 4 Nov 2020, 12:45 UTC Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society
- 4 Nov 2020, 11:00 UTC Astronomers report first detection of ultrabright radio flashes in our own galaxy
- 28 Oct 2020, 15:40 UTC Designing new mirror materials for better gravitational-wave detection
- 15 Oct 2020, 22:58 UTC MKI Graduate Students Nicholas Demos and Wenxuan Jia receive MathWorks Fellowships
- 26 Sep 2020, 02:10 UTC National Postdoc Appreciation Week
- 14 Sep 2020, 11:00 UTC Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus
- 11 Sep 2020, 11:00 UTC School of Science appoints 12 faculty members to named professorships
- 19 Aug 2020, 14:45 UTC Are we still listening to space?
- 19 Aug 2020, 14:45 UTC Are we still listening to space?
- 17 Aug 2020, 00:00 UTC Nergis Mavalvala named School of Science dean
- 4 Aug 2020, 00:00 UTC Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths
- 15 Jul 2020, 23:59 UTC In a first, astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear
- 7 Jul 2020, 16:45 UTC Nine MIT School of Science professors receive tenure for 2020
- 1 Jul 2020, 12:06 UTC Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale
- 12 Jun 2020, 15:40 UTC Capturing stardust
- 9 Jun 2020, 22:07 UTC Capturing stardust: Danielle Frostig, a physics graduate student and 2018–2019 Whiteman Fell...
- 6 Jun 2020, 14:46 UTC We stand with our Black students and colleagues in asserting that Black lives matter
- 2 Jun 2020, 14:59 UTC Citizen scientists spot closest young brown dwarf disk yet
- 8 May 2020, 13:07 UTC The Next Kavli Prize laureates will be announced on May 27, 2020
- 4 May 2020, 12:00 UTC Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world
- 1 May 2020, 23:32 UTC Our own LIGO Lab members featured in New York Times video “The Sound of Gravity”
- 18 Apr 2020, 14:27 UTC Happy 2nd Anniversary! TESS, an MIT-led NASA mission, was launched on April 18, 2018 aboard ...
- 18 Nov 2019, 21:50 UTC Phoenix Cluster: A Weakened Black Hole Allows Its Galaxy To Awaken
- 7 Nov 2019, 14:45 UTC Lincoln Laboratory welcomes Natalia Guerrero for Hispanic Heritage Month event
- 4 Nov 2019, 11:50 UTC School of Science appoints 14 faculty members to named professorships
- 31 Oct 2019, 21:08 UTC Lincoln Laboratory welcomes TESS researcher for Hispanic Heritage Month event
- 30 Oct 2019, 20:53 UTC NASA’s Planet-Hunting Probe Joins the Search for Intelligent Aliens. Scientists with the TES...
- 11 Oct 2019, 23:05 UTC Congratulations to MKI Visiting Scientist Didier Queloz for being awarded the 2019 Nobel Pri...
- 8 Oct 2019, 19:33 UTC The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 awarded to cosmology and exoplanet researchers
- 6 Sep 2019, 11:58 UTC Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
- 6 Sep 2019, 11:58 UTC Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration f...
- 3 Jul 2019, 23:59 UTC John Belcher one of seven MIT educators honored for digital learning innovation
- 3 Jul 2019, 23:27 UTC Atmosphere of Mid-Size Planet Revealed by Hubble and Spitzer
- 1 May 2019, 12:30 UTC Quantum measurement could improve gravitational wave detection sensitivity
- 26 Apr 2019, 19:36 UTC LIGO detects gravitational waves from another neutron star merger
- 27 Mar 2019, 01:54 UTC LIGO and Virgo Resume Search for Ripples in Space and Time
