Astronomy

Tracking icy objects, across the globePilot project sets the stage for MIT-led globe-girdling efforts to learn about icy relics of the solar system's birth.

Oddball stars explainedNew observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped rotation. In addition to shedding light on how binary stars form, the explanation knocks down a possible challenge to Einstein's theory of relativity.

The hunt for dark matterMIT physicists are working on new detectors that may, at last, help them find the elusive particles thought to constitute up to a quarter of the universe.