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MIT professor Richard Binzel says near-Earth asteroids (NEA) are the perfect destination for testing equipment and systems that could ultimately be used to transport people to Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Near-Earth Asteroids: Stepping-Stones to Mars

Artist's concept of the Mars 2020 rover. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

MIT, NASA Partner to Make Oxygen on Mars

Screenshot of the Illustris Simulation that shows what the universe looks like 12.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Image: MIT

What’s Out There?

Apollo 11 astronauts, still in their quarantine van, are greeted by their wives upon arrival at Ellington Air Force Base on July 27, 1969. Image: NASA

Buzz Aldrin: Next Stop, Mars

Central fissure of Lake Volcano in Iceland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

MIT Alumna on women in science, volcanoes

Course XII alumna Alexandra Witze '92 is an award-winning science writer. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Witze.

MIT Alumna goes from science to science writing

Noelle Eckley Selin’s work to cut urban air pollution: Attracting attention of environmental policy makers across the world. Len Rubenstein

Winter 2014

From Pollutants to Smart Policy

Noelle Eckley Selin’s work to cut urban air pollution attracts attention of environmental policy makers across the world.

Dara Entekhabi leads an international NASA science team set to make the first-ever global observations of soil moisture from space. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Summer 2010

Measuring Moisture

Fall 2008

Fall 2008

Understanding the Universe

Prof. Paola Rizzoli was inspired by the floods in her hometown to study how and why coastal waters ebb and flow. Photo: Ed Quinn

Spring 2008

Trapped in Venice Flood

Prof. Paola Rizzoli, once trapped in a Venice flood, now studies why coastal waters ebb and flow.