News + Impact - MIT EAPS

From the archives: MITHenge with Professor Binzel

November 4, 2024

Categories: Community, Events + Outreach

Cover of the journal Nature with microscopic view of L chondrite minerals.

EAPS researchers uncover meteorite origins, in Nature

October 17, 2024

Categories: In the Media, Planets, Research

Richard Binzel and Glenn Silva hold a 3D printed plaque depicting Saturn's rings for position on a blank wall.

From the archives: Richard Binzel on corralling the cosmos in the Infinite Corridor

September 25, 2024

Categories: Events + Outreach

Professor Richard Binzel smiles while holding a meteorite fragment next to a plaque commemorating the day it fell in Johnstown, Colorado, in 1924.

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

July 17, 2024

Categories: Faculty, In the Media

A black NASA orb-shaped capsule in the Utah desert during daytime.

3 Questions: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth

September 25, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Research

Space y Chile: communicating planetary science

February 11, 2022

Categories: Alumni, Events + Outreach, Planets

Astronomer Richard Binzel retires from MIT after 33 years

February 02, 2022

Categories: Faculty, Planets, Profile

NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission carrying MIT student experiment wins Space Foundation award

January 28, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Planets, Students + Postdocs

Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids

October 18, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

A rare peek into Apophis

March 31, 2021

Categories: Planets, Research

OSIRIS-REx finds asteroid Bennu with pieces of Vesta

September 21, 2020

Categories: Planets, Research

How to deflect an asteroid

February 19, 2020

Categories: Planets, Research

A student stands in front of palques depicting the Sun and inner rocky planets in 3D, positioned to scale in the long Infinite Corridor.

An Infinite solar system

November 16, 2018

Categories: Community, Events + Outreach, Planets