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Members of the ASTERIA team prepare the petite satellite for its journey to space.

Tiny ASTERIA satellite achieves a first for CubeSats

Categories: Research, Faculty, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Illustration of NASA's Parker Solar Probe in front of the Sun.

3Q: A bold mission to touch the sun

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
CLAS detector

In neutron stars, protons may do the heavy lifting

Categories: Research, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
Photo of Heising-Simons Foundation grant recipients: (l-r) Radha Mastandrea, Carina Belvin, and Shuo Zhang, and Professor Lindley Winslow

Paying it forward: Fellowship boosts women in physics

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Students, WiSTEM
Illustration of optical signals.

On-chip optical filter processes wide range of light wavelengths

Categories: Research, Faculty, Condensed Matter Experiment
Illustration depicting a beam of electrons scattering off a beam of protons or atomic nuclei, generating virtual photons.

3Q: Richard Milner on a new U.S. particle accelerator

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment

School of Science appoints eight faculty members to named professorships

Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty
In this illustration, a neutrino has interacted with a molecule of ice, producing a secondary particle—a muon.

3Q: Janet Conrad on the first detection of a neutrino’s cosmic source

Categories: Interview/Q&A, Faculty, Particle Physics Experiment
Numerical simulation of the last instances of a neutron star and black hole merger, as the neutron star is destroyed by the tidal pull of the black hole (at the center of the disk).

Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Theory

Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT

Categories: In The News, Faculty, WiSTEM
The image is an artist’s visualization of a nucleus as studied in numerical simulations, created using DeepArt neural network visualization software.

Project to elucidate the structure of atomic nuclei at the femtoscale

Categories: Research, Labs & Centers, Faculty, WiSTEM, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope orbits the Sun in concert with the Earth, slowly drifting away from Earth.

Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time

Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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