Science News: NASA plans to launch sounding rockets into the Moon's shadow during an upcoming solar eclipse, offering researchers a rare chance to study how eclipse
Philip Erickson has been named the new director of MIT Haystack Observatory. In leading the radio science observatory in Westford, Mass., Erickson succeeds longtime director Colin Lonsdale, who plans to step down.
New images of M87 , the first black hole to be directly imaged, reveal a thicker, fluffier ring that’s 50 percent larger than first reported. MIT Haystack scientists and others harnessed the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) to capture a more zoomed-out view.
An international group of scientists, including MIT's Haystack Observatory, has published new observations of 3C 273, the first quasar ever identified, that show the innermost, deepest parts of the quasar’s prominent plasma jet.
MIT’s MOXIE experiment has now produced oxygen on Mars. It is the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Red Planet, and a key step in the goal of sending humans on a Martian mission.