Seven MIT community members have been honored with 2022 American Astronomical Society (AAS) prizes and […]
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New instrument to search for signs of life on other planets
Artist’s impression of the ANDES instrument. Credit: ESO The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed […]
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Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby | MIT News
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood […]
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Astronomers discover 49 new galaxies in under three hours
A team of international astronomers have discovered 49 new gas-rich galaxies using the MeerKAT radio […]
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Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth | MIT News
Astronomers at MIT and universities across Canada and the United States have detected a strange […]
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Scientists detect slowest-spinning radio emitting neutron star ever recorded
Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly […]
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Deepto Chakrabarty named head of the Department of Physics | MIT News
Professor Deepto Chakrabarty, principal investigator at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, […]
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Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole
University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if […]
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Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon | MIT News
Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the […]
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Tiniest ‘starquake’ ever detected | ScienceDaily
An orange dwarf star has yielded the tiniest ‘starquakes’ ever recorded, measured by an international […]