Space+Planetary Sciences

For This Brother-Sister Pluto Team, Love of Science Runs in the Family

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This image shows the region around the black hole in low, medium, and high-energy X-rays (red, green, and blue respectively.) Image: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al.

Black Hole Odyssey

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Space Probe Tweets its Historic Landing on Comet 67P

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

The nonprofit company Mars One plans to establish the first human settlement on Mars by 2025. Pictured is an artist's rendering of a series of habitats. Solar panels (in the foreground), would supply the colony's electricity, while a system to extract water from the soil (in the background) would supply drinking water. Image: Courtesy of Bryan Versteeg/Mars One

Are We Ready to Live on Mars? MIT Study Says Not Yet

Fall 2014

Giant Steps: Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

This fall, MIT celebrates 100 years of achievements in aeronautics and astronautics and its amazing history of leadership to the nation and the world.

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

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Topics: Space+Planetary Sciences

For This Brother-Sister Pluto Team, Love of Science Runs in the Family

Black Hole Odyssey

Space Probe Tweets its Historic Landing on Comet 67P

Near-Earth Asteroids: Stepping-Stones to Mars

Are We Ready to Live on Mars? MIT Study Says Not Yet

Giant Steps: Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

MIT, NASA Partner to Make Oxygen on Mars

What’s Out There?

Buzz Aldrin: Next Stop, Mars

One Giant Leap for WiFi: Connectivity on the Moon