Hundreds of eyes will be looking up at the lunar eclipse early Thursday morning, as the eyes of real people are projected on the Great Dome at MIT. This is part of an art installation connecting ...

An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could collide with Earth in a few years. Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and ...

A new MIT study suggests that greenhouse gas emissions are altering the space where satellites operate. Most satellites orbit in the thermosphere, a layer of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Naturally, this ...

Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and professor at MIT. Binzel and his team have been following asteroid 2024 YR4 for months. It was first identified by NASA late last year and has been ...

But three other projects from the MIT Media Lab will catch a ride to the Moon, too. The MIT Media Lab is famous for its interdisciplinary approach to technology, melding technology and human ...

Currently: Principal Investigator of NASA's Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. B.Sc. in physics from MIT, Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Hawai`i. Infrared astronomy post-doctoral ...

Professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University and the president of the American Astronomical Society (June 2018–June 2020). The system-engineering lead on Uber's self-driving truck ...