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NASA’s Psyche mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own. Its principal investigator is MIT alumna and former professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who leads a team including longtime MIT colleagues on the first mission to a metal world.

University President Peter Salovey’s 10 years at the University’s helm have seen challenges and changes in sustainability goals.

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2023 - If you could sink through the Earths crust, you might hear, with a carefully tuned ear, a cacophany of booms and crackles along the way. The fissures, pores, and defects running through rocks are l

Olumide Adedeji, a Ph.D candidate in the Earth and Plantary Science Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM), achieved a remarkable milestone by securing the first-place prize at the National Elevator Pitch Competition, organized by the Houston...

Here is how observing stellar flares in distant systems can help researchers search for planets that can host life.

NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has returned a sample that scientists will study for decades to learn more about the formation of the solar system.

The latest findings from NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission support scientists' theory that asteroids rich in carbon and water may have delivered the essential building blocks of life and made Earth habitable.

Climate change by the turn of the Century could lead to global warming that could trigger heart attacks and heat strokes in some of the most populated areas of the world, including India and the Indus valley, new research has predicted.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe solar flares from the red dwarf start in the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, located some 40 million light-years from Earth.

Astrophysicists have successfully utilized the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to examine a volatile star.