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DUGWAY, United States — A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end on Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable.When

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New York City is sinking at the same time that sea levels around the world are rising, which could exacerbate flooding concerns for the region. Researchers have found a way to determine exactly w...

The rich soil holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries by indigenous practices, a new study suggests. The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon’s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the fores

Sixteen new faculty joined the MIT departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics in 2023 as professors and scientists.

MIT's Center for Computational Science and Engineering, an academic unit within the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, launched a new standalone PhD degree program focused on cross-cutting methodological aspects of computational science.

DUGWAY, Utah: A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

Houston TX (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - Two Rice University scientists have received a 3-year grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to investigate a form of carbon storage that is as little understood as it is ubiquitous: soil.

Paris (ESA) Sep 26, 2023 - Fungi in space have been a plot point in Star Trek: Discovery, but they are also a very real problem for astronauts and space stations. United Nations co-sponsored testing by a team from Macau in Ch

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazons land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the forested vegetation, particul

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 26, 2023 - On Sunday morning, a capsule the size of a mini-fridge dropped from the skies over western Utah, carrying a first-of-its-kind package: about 250 grams of dirt and dust plucked from the surface of