This image over part of West Antarctica was captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 30 September 2026.

NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was among the year’s top innovations recognized Thursday on TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list.

NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis...

Researchers at the MIT Whitehead Institute developed a powerful computational approach to understand how cells communicate with each other to assemble into tissues and organs. Their framework has the...

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As the supercooled propellant flowed into the core stage, and NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket roared to life, Allison Mjoen and her family watched with awe and pride. Mjoen, NASA’s operations manager for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, helped shape the systems and ground operations that will one day send humans back to the Moon. Over her 20-year career at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, she supported missions across the Space Shuttle Program, the International Space Station, and now she is applying that experience to Artemis. April 1, 2026, was a bright, crystal-clear day along the Florida Space Coast. The sunlight seemed to sharpen every color along the horizon. As Mjoen and her children counted down and the crowd’s voices rose around them, the rumble of the SLS rocket intensified beneath their feet. For her children, it was the chance to see what their mom had helped make possible. For Mjoen, it was a moment she would never forget. That moment also offered a pause for reflection on the work that led her there. As the spacecraft offline operations manager, Mjoen coordinates the work that happens long before launch day. By supporting the ground systems’ senior vehicle...

Over the last decade, MIT Vice Chancellor Suzy Nelson has refocused the Institute’s approach to student life to center on student well-being.

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When corporate leaders discuss climate strategy, the message that still dominates is that, despite competing priorities and external pressures, sustainability matters. According to the 2026 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report from the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab, which surveyed 1,810 supply chain professionals across 91 countries, 83 percent rate sustainability as important or very important to long-term business success, the highest level in the report's seven-year history. But commitment, the report reveals, is not the same as capacity. While 59 percent of respondents report becoming more committed to sustainability following recent U.S. policy shifts that deprioritize environmental concerns, the same organizations are being forced to compromise those commitments. Sixty-eight percent report that tariff uncertainty has compelled them to delay, scale back, or abandon sustainability strategies. Nearly one-third have seen tariff-related disruptions actually increase their operational emissions. "Commitment is strong, measurement is expanding, and AI is accelerating," says Sreedevi Rajagopalan, director of the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab and lead author of the report. "What comes next is harder: converting commitment into accountability, operational integration into strategic decision-making, and incremental decarbonization into genuine transition." The result is a supply chain sustainability agenda stuck between conviction and constraint. Beyond tariffs, more...

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The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.

Hana Sousa, an MIT senior in chemical engineering, volunteers with the Association of Student Activities as a way to advocate for students and to strengthen bridges between MIT and its student clubs a...

New mission launched to help protect active satellites which underpin national security and everyday services

MIT remembered Thomas Rose, an archaeometallurgist and Department of Materials Science and Engineering faculty member, at a memorial service in the MIT Chapel. A new archaeometallurgy scholarship will...

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan's Balochistan province on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

If you've ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold.

Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard

ISRO's Aditya-L1 and ESA's Proba-3 jointly observe solar eruptions, revealing new insights into coronal mass ejections, their energy, density and evolution.

More than half of the ELT’s giant mirror is now in Chile

Registration is open for the 2026 NASA Space Apps Challenge, a two-day global event on Saturday, Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 15, where teams work to create

NASA has selected 12 U.S. institutions to receive $12 million to accelerate academic research and technology development in support of the agency’s priorities

Earlier this year, Georgia Tech shared information about updated digital accessibility requirements under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Institute’s work to help ensure ...