With the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, the Institute’s multidisciplinary approach to music deepens. On a typical afternoon, MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building hums with life.

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has driven a hundred-year debate between philosophy and science. In Einstein’s ...

In “A Brief History of Time,” first published in 1988, the British physicist Stephen Hawking explained how space and time are connected, interwoven, interdependent with each other. Since the universe ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a planetary system that could ...

The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday morning (July 21). The Hubble Space Telescope has caught its first glimpse of ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...