http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/space.html Space, astronomy and planetary science headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/space.html 88 31 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/planets-tt0402.html It took a real oddball of a star--or rather, pair of stars--to provide the exceptional conditions that made detection possible of the intermediate stage of planet formation by a team of astronomers, including an MIT physicist, this March. Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/planets-tt0402.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-planets-tt0319.html MIT scientists, with Google's help, are designing a satellite-based observatory that could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-planets-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/asteroids-tt0319.html MIT student Cristina Thomas has been making observations of asteroids using a large NASA telescope in Hawaii, at least once a month for more than three years now. But to get to the telescope, she needs only to walk down the hall. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/asteroids-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/mars-desert-0225.html Two MIT students are currently living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat, they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/mars-desert-0225.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/space-tani-0222.html Daniel Tani SB '84, SM '88 returned to the Kennedy Space Center aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Feb. 20. Tani spent 120 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 16 crew. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/space-tani-0222.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quarks-0217.html MIT physics professor John Negele will talk about the theory that governs interactions of quarks and gluons, known as quantum chromodynamics, during a Feb. 17 presentation to the AAAS annual meeting in Boston. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/aaas-quarks-0217.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/moonscope-0215.html NASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the so-called "Dark Ages," the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/moonscope-0215.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/zuber-mercury-0201.html Professor Maria Zuber, head of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, addresses a Jan. 30 NASA press conference in which results from the first mission to visit the planet Mercury in 30 years were unveiled. Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/zuber-mercury-0201.html