The results of CHEOPS, the first ESA mission dedicated to characterising known exoplanets, have been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
CHEOPS was developed as part...
Anne Dutrey, from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux at Université de Bordeaux – CNRS, outlines new research utilising ALMA to search for planet...
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, has found the first example of an intact planet closely orbiting a...
Mairi Sakellariadou, Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London, discusses her research into early Universe cosmology.
Professor Mairi Sakellariadou’s research into theoretical physics and...
National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the GMTO Corporation $17.5m to accelerate the prototyping and testing of powerful optical and infrared technologies for the Giant Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
The NSF grant positions the Giant...
ERIG e.V, a German student association at the Technical University of Braunschweig, is the winner of the sixth edition of the international Mars rover competition ERC Space and Robotics Event.
The participants of the 2020 ERC Space and Robotics Event...
Marina Ruggieri, IEEE Fellow and Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, discusses the transformative nature of the increasing use of software in space missions.
The sophistication of software onboard space shuttles has increased exponentially in...
The Royal Astronomical Society has today announced that an international team of astronomers have discovered phosphine in the clouds on Venus,suggesting the existence of microbes on the planet.
Researchers used the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii to detect...
According to scientists at the University of Bern, Switzerland, space debris has been observed by scientists for the first time during the day.
On 10 February 2009 two communication satellites, Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251, collided over Siberia at an...
A remote Mars rover competition, named the ERC Space and Robotics Event, will begin on 11 September 2020, using a robot management platform to navigate a mobile robot on the largest artificial Martian field on Earth.
The grand finale of the...
New research has revealed the first evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming discs, leaving it warped and with tilted rings.
An international team of researchers has identified a stellar system where planet formation might take place...
Professor Kinwah Wu from University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory discusses high-precision astrophysics in the context of multi-messenger studies of gravitational radiation sources consisting of a spinning pulsar inspiralling into a massive black hole.
The detection of gravitational waves...
Professor Samar Safi-Harb’s research addresses the physics of such objects as supernovae and neutron stars, and answers questions around their diversity, formation, and evolution, as well as their impact on their surroundings.
Supernovae (SN) are among the most fascinating, energetic...
Participants in the 2020 European Rover Challenge (ERC) Martian rover competition are embracing curiosity and seizing opportunity.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across all branches of the economy worldwide, leaving some of them profoundly impacted for the foreseeable future....
