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40 Years Ago: An Astronaut’s ‘Big Leap’ Into Space
By Chris Tejirian Imagine strapping yourself into the nose cone of one of the most powerful rockets ever built, then blazing out of our atmosphere to a zone with little hope of rescue. The daring of...
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For All Humankind
By Leda Zimmerman | Department of Political Science | MIT News Can a government promote morality? How much trust should people place in their government? Such fundamental questions of political...
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Termites Inspire Shelters for Life on the Moon
By Katy Smith-U. Arizona NASA has big plans for its Artemis program—to return Americans to the moon for the first time since 1972 and establish a lunar base for humans by the end of the decade. Jekan...
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I’ve Been Studying Astronaut Psychology Since Apollo − a Long Voyage to Mars...
By Nick Kanas, University of California, San Francisco Within the next few decades, NASA aims to land humans on the Moon, set up a lunar colony and use the lessons learned to send people to Mars as...
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Astronomers Spot a Giant Planet That Is as Light as Cotton Candy
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered a huge, fluffy oddball of a planet orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy....
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US Participation in Space Has Benefits at Home and Abroad − Reaping Them All...
By Cheyenne Black, University of Oklahoma When people think about what we get from the U.S. space program, it may be along the lines of NASA technology spin-offs such as freeze-dried food and...
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Designing for Outer Space
By Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning | MIT News A new MIT course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space. The time for...
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A Moon Landing ‘For All Mankind’
By Noelani Kirschner On July 20, 1969, hundreds of millions of people around the world turned on televisions or gathered in public spaces to watch as U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
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Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why 2023 Was So Hot. Here’s Why You...
By Clark Merrefield What happens when once reliable indicators of the world’s climate future suddenly seem not so dependable? That’s one startling puzzle from 2023, when scientists’ predictions based...
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Dr. Calvin Goforth: One Book Away From a Endless New Perspectives
By Bryan Wish Calvin Goforth, PhD, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VIC Technology Venture Development. Calvin has extensive experience in start-up company development in founder,...
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Q&A: How the Europa Clipper Will Set Cameras on a Distant Icy Moon
By Paige Colley | EAPS | MIT News With its latest space mission successfully launched, NASA is set to return for a close-up investigation of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Yesterday at 12:06 p.m. EDT, the...
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How Can Jupiter Have No Surface? A Dive Into a Planet So Big, It Could...
By Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why...
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New AI Tool Generates Realistic Satellite Images of Future Flooding
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Visualizing the potential impacts of a hurricane on people’s homes before it hits can help residents prepare and decide whether to evacuate. MIT scientists have developed a...
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NASA Wants Help Reducing Space Trash – Are They too Late?
By Marcus Griswold We’ve talked about the failures of the recycling system on planet earth. Now NASA wants to get ahead of the space waste problem. Space debris began to accumulate in Earth orbit with...
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From New Commercial Moon Landers To Asteroid Investigations, Expect a Slate...
By Zhenbo Wang, University of Tennessee In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first...
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Gateway: The 21st-Century Moonshot Mission
By Sarah Scoles On some unknown day in 2027, if all goes as planned, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch toward the dark void beyond Earth’s atmosphere, carrying with it the basic makings of a...
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3D Printing Will Help Space Pioneers Make Homes, Tools and Other Stuff They...
By Sven Bilén, Penn State Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the essentials: tools, seeds and clothing....
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Astronomers Discover a Planet That’s Rapidly Disintegrating, Producing a...
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News MIT astronomers have discovered a planet some 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly crumbling to pieces. The disintegrating world is about the mass of Mercury,...
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A Siege on Science: How Trump Is Undoing an American Legacy
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Across seven decades and a dozen presidencies, America’s scientific prowess was...
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Learning How to Predict Rare Kinds of Failures
By MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems | MIT News On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of...
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