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Tagged: Astronomy

  • MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope

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    September 30, 2025

  • Deflecting a deadly asteroid just got a lot less dangerous

    Read it at New Scientist

    September 11, 2025

  • Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

    Read it at MIT News

    August 26, 2025

  • How Alien Life Could Exist Without Water

    Read it at Gizmodo

    August 12, 2025

  • The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens

    Read it at The New Yorker

    July 28, 2025

  • The LIGO Lab Is Pushing the Boundaries of Gravitational-Wave Research

    Read it at Scientific American

    July 16, 2025

  • Stellar flares may hamper search for life in promising star system

    Read it at New Scientist

    October 09, 2025

  • Have we finally solved mystery of magnetic moon rocks?

    Read it at Ars Technica

    May 23, 2025

  • MIT astronomers discover crumbling planet; may offer insight into Earth-like conditions in space

    Read it at the Boston Globe

    April 24, 2025

  • Why do the odds of asteroids hitting Earth keep fluctuating?

    Read it at MIT News

    March 03, 2025

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