When the first stars blinked on
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old.
GRAIL reveals a battered lunar history
Twin spacecraft create a highly detailed gravity map of the moon, finding an interior pulverized by early impacts.
Paintballs may deflect an incoming asteroid
With 20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer off course.
A far-off solar system
Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system.
Explained: Near-miss asteroids
What to do in the event of an asteroid streaking toward Earth? Activate the asteroid ‘fire drill.’
Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow
Mars’ carbon dioxide ‘snowflakes’ are about the size of red blood cells.
Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust
A planet’s dust cloud may explain strange patterns of light from its star.
Lincoln Laboratory helps celebrate the official unveiling of the Space Surveillance Telescope
The laboratory developed enabling technologies for the telescope
Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
Discovery could offer clues on the nature of dark matter.
3 Questions: Richard Binzel on near-Earth asteroids
'2011 MD,' found by a Lincoln Lab team, will pass close to the planet on Monday.
Exploring exploration
From deep space to deep sea, two-day symposium examined MIT’s impacts and innovations.
Cold asteroids may have a soft heart
Partially molten small bodies may be abundant in space, and may have given the Earth its oceans.
EAPS, physics professor James Elliot dies at 67
Led team that discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977.