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Matthew Evans and Salvatore Vitale describe the Cosmic Explorer — a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory that is expected to pick up ripples in space-time from as far back as the early universe.

Most known exoplanets orbit closely around their stars, but the MIT-led TESS mission has discovered a rare system containing two planets with much more distant orbits, one of which has the longest orbital period that TESS has detected to date. The planets are circling TOI-4600, a nearby star that is 815 light years from Earth.

MIT professor of physics Wolfgang Ketterle received a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship to study quantum science and build new quantum devices using ultracold dysprosium atoms.

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers discovered what may be the last three planets that the Kepler Space Telescope saw before it was retired.

Scientists have observed a star swallowing a planet for the first time. Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.

MIT scientists have found that two previously separate fields in condensed matter physics can be combined to yield new, exotic phenomena.

MIT physicists have discovered a resonance in colliding ultracold molecules. The findings shed light on the forces that drive molecules to chemically react and suggest scientists could one day harness particles’ natural resonances to steer and control certain reactions.

MIT physicists found a way to switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene. The discovery could lead to ultrafast superconducting transistors for “neuromorphic” electronics that operate similarly to the rapid on/off firing of neurons in the human brain.

MIT physicists have developed a protocol to verify the accuracy of quantum experiments.

An MIT study finds that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not reveal anything fundamental about how black holes form. More data will be needed to determine whether the invisible giants arose from a quiet galactic disk or a more dynamic cluster of stars.