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- 10 Jan 2019, 03:14 UTC X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star
- 9 Jan 2019, 23:00 UTC Astronomers observe evolution of a black hole as it wolfs down stellar material
- 27 Dec 2018, 21:30 UTC Stamp of approval
- 26 Dec 2018, 23:00 UTC School of Science honors postdocs and research staff with 2018 Infinite Kilometer Awards
- 26 Dec 2018, 23:00 UTC School of Science honors postdocs and research staff with 2019 Infinite Kilometer Awards
- 11 Dec 2018, 02:20 UTC 3 Questions: MIT goes interstellar with Voyager 2
- 4 Dec 2018, 00:00 UTC LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections
- 4 Dec 2018, 00:00 UTC LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections
- 4 Dec 2018, 00:00 UTC LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections
- 29 Nov 2018, 19:00 UTC Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute
- 29 Nov 2018, 19:00 UTC Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute
- 29 Nov 2018, 09:00 UTC Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute
- 27 Nov 2018, 21:00 UTC Three MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
- 27 Nov 2018, 21:00 UTC Three MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
- 26 Nov 2018, 20:22 UTC (Nearly) 20 Years in the Life of a Supernova Remnant: Multiyear Monitoring of Cas A (speaker...
- 9 Nov 2018, 00:57 UTC MIT Exoplanet Tea (speaker: Sam Grunblatt)
- 5 Nov 2018, 21:40 UTC MIT Holiday -- no events
- 5 Nov 2018, 21:37 UTC MIT Exoplanet Tea (speaker: Naylynn Tañón Reyes)
- 5 Nov 2018, 21:25 UTC When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations (speaker: Nevin Wein...
- 5 Nov 2018, 21:22 UTC A tabletop-scale probe for TeV physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron (speaker:...
- 22 Oct 2018, 01:53 UTC Economic History of American Space Exploration (speaker: Alexander MacDonald, NASA)
- 20 Oct 2018, 00:40 UTC Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships
- 20 Oct 2018, 00:40 UTC Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships
- 17 Oct 2018, 20:30 UTC Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2018
- 17 Oct 2018, 20:30 UTC Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2018
- 17 Oct 2018, 18:55 UTC Evans, Barsotti and Harlow win 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons Prizes
- 17 Oct 2018, 18:00 UTC Angelika Amon wins 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 17 Oct 2018, 18:00 UTC Angelika Amon wins 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 17 Oct 2018, 04:00 UTC Evans, Barsotti and Harlow win 2019 Breakthrough New Horizons Prizes
- 9 Oct 2018, 19:09 UTC Akshata Krishnamurthy awarded the 2018 Emerging Space Leaders Grant Award
- 9 Oct 2018, 04:00 UTC Akshata Krishnamurthy awarded the 2018 Emerging Space Leaders Grant Award
- 26 Sep 2018, 08:00 UTC Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
- 26 Sep 2018, 08:00 UTC Software finds the best way to stick a Mars landing
- 24 Sep 2018, 17:00 UTC Professor Emeritus Bernard Burke, astrophysics pioneer, dies at 90
- 24 Sep 2018, 17:00 UTC Professor Emeritus Bernard Burke, astrophysics pioneer, dies at 90
- 7 Aug 2018, 17:30 UTC Meet and Greet
- 27 Jul 2018, 18:21 UTC NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Starts Science Operations
- 3 Jul 2018, 21:52 UTC Julien de Wit Begins MIT Faculty Appointment
- 20 Jun 2018, 00:28 UTC Akshata Krishnamurthy named Zonta Amelia Earhart 2018 Fellow
- 19 Jun 2018, 16:25 UTC The Optical Society Presents the 2018 Charles Hard Townes Award
- 13 Jun 2018, 16:14 UTC LIGO Laboratories in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA to be designated Historical Sites for No...
- 4 Jun 2018, 13:00 UTC Meet the School of Science’s tenured professors for 2018
- 31 May 2018, 23:06 UTC 7 SCIENTIFIC PIONEERS TO RECEIVE 2018 KAVLI PRIZES
- 18 May 2018, 01:51 UTC How Black Holes Shape Globular Clusters (speaker: Kyle Kremer, Northwestern)
- 17 May 2018, 18:06 UTC To Seek Out New Life: How the TESS Mission Will Accelerate the Hunt for Livable Alien Worlds
- 25 Apr 2018, 22:24 UTC Planets Aplenty with the TESS Mission: An Interview with the Director of the Kavli Institute...
- 24 Apr 2018, 15:45 UTC MKI'ers attend the TESS launch
- 3 Apr 2018, 21:29 UTC Thesis defense presented by David Hernandez: "Solving the N-body Problem in Astrophysics"
- 18 Mar 2018, 23:59 UTC Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star
- 19 Jan 2018, 00:16 UTC Night-time observing with MKI's Sidewalk Astrogazers Outreach Team (weather permitting)
