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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.