Undergraduates of all academic backgrounds are invited to participate in the 2026 Gaia Hackathon!

First Observations from the PFS Galactic Archaeology Survey

Characterizing the Chemical Landscape of Planet Formation

The SPHEREx Mission: an All-Sky Spectral Survey Like No Other

Rebecca Surman, University of Notre Dame & Victoria DiTomasso, Harvard CfA

Unorthodox planet-disk interaction: Eccentricity, Turbulence and Winds & Probing the Oldest Black Holes with Detailed Modeling of AGN Variability

Richard Pan, Tufts University & Pipit Triani, Harvard CfA

Small circumbinary planets are truly rarer than small single-star planets & Probing AGN Feedback in the Early Universe

NASA astronaut Chris Williams PhD '12 is launching to the International Space Station!

A professional development workshop for MKI researchers about building the public trust in science and scientists

Enjoy the debut screening of a cinematic living history performance followed by a live science talk about the cosmic origins of elements

A professional development workshop for MKI researchers about building the public trust in science and scientists

Pappalardo Room, 4-349

Explore the weird and wonderful qualities of time travel and black hole physics with MIT physics professor Scott Hughes and his students.

Enjoy telescope tricks and planetarium treats at the Prudential Center’s annual Halloween event.

All are invited to come hear updates from Rob and others as we begin the new academic year.

Talk 1: What's the Buzz About GX 13+1? Constraining Coronal Geometry with QUEEN-BEE: A Bayesian Nested Sampling Framework for X-ray Polarization Rotation Analysis Talk 2: Exoplanets through time: First glimpse of the atmospheres of young transiting planets

Talk 1: TBD Talk 2: Tracing Dark Matter in External Galaxies with Stellar Streams from Euclid and Zooniverse

Talk 1: Measurement of the Dispersion-Galaxy Cross-Power Spectrum with the Second CHIME/FRB Catalog Talk 2: The Beginnings of Today's Supermassive Black Holes in JWST's Little Red Dot "Black Hole Stars"

Telescope observing in the Middlesex Fells with MIT Astrogazers

MKI’s TESS, LIGO, and Astrogazers team present hands-on activities for kids of all ages

Explore the physics of black holes and gravitational waves at the MIT Museum

Simulations Meet JWST to Understand AGN at Cosmic Dawn and Co-Evolution of SMBH and Galaxies from z~6 to the Present Day

The Circumgalactic Medium at 200 pc

Searching for Long-Period Radio Transients with the DSA-110 & Modeling Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission in MHD Galaxy Formation Simulations with Full Cosmic Ray Spectra

Revealing the Progenitor(s) of Fast Radio Bursts through their Environments & Testing Dark Matter with Stellar Stream Dynamics: from the Stellar Halo to Subhalos