Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured ultraviolet images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing hidden chemical ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

This stunning aerial view captures the verdant countryside of Pune, a cultural and educational hub in Maharashtra, India, as ...

As the Institute’s first VP for energy and climate, Evelyn Wang ’00 is marshaling MIT’s expertise to meet the greatest ...

Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

Threats to reliability, such as extreme weather, demand action, but so does our community’s need for affordable, reliable ...