Paintballs may deflect an incoming asteroid October 26, 2012With
20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer
off course. Department snapshot: Aeronautics and Astronautics
October 3, 2012AeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting
a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments. NASA-JPL
director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission
September 18, 2012Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary
rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory
projects JPL is undertaking. River networks on Titan point to a
puzzling geologic history July 20, 2012Findings suggest the
surface of Saturn’s largest moon may have undergone a recent
transformation. Said and Done for June/July 2012 July 16,
2012Digest of MIT humanities, arts and social sciences
Explained: Near-miss asteroids June 29, 2012What to do in the
event of an asteroid streaking toward Earth? Activate the
asteroid ‘fire drill.’ Mysterious electron acceleration
explained February 27, 2012Computer simulation identif