A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
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MIT News OfficeApril 22, 2013MIT physicist explains how new results from an underground experiment add intrigue to the hunt for dark matter. -
MIT News OfficeApril 19, 2013Potentially habitable planets are slightly larger than Earth. -
MIT News OfficeApril 17, 2013Frebel will work on identifying large numbers of 12 to 13 billion-year-old stars in the galactic halo -
MIT News OfficeApril 5, 2013$200 million project will launch telescopes to perform full-sky search for transiting exoplanets. -
MIT News OfficeMarch 20, 2013Josh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds. -
MIT News OfficeNovember 6, 2012Researchers detect the brightest flare ever observed in our galaxy’s black hole. -
MIT News OfficeSeptember 13, 2012Celebrating anniversary with daylong symposium on Sept. 14 -
MIT News OfficeAugust 15, 2012Detection may confirm long-held theory. -
MIT News OfficeJuly 25, 2012Researchers measure the orientation of a multiplanet system and find it very similar to our own solar system. -
MIT News OfficeMay 18, 2012A planet’s dust cloud may explain strange patterns of light from its star.
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