Dr Rain Irshad, Autonomous Systems Lead at RAL Space, discusses what Europe’s first analysis facility for extra-terrestrial samples could tell us about Mars. Understanding more about the prospect of life on Mars could soon be a reality, as the UK...

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a way that a spacecraft can use pulsar star signals to navigate in space. The remnants of a collapsed neutron star, called a pulsar, are magnetically charged and can spin anywhere...

Astronomers have applied Artificial Intelligence to image recognition in order to predict the effect of interactions between planets, making it possible to discover exoplanets. The majority of exoplanets uncovered to date have been discovered using the transit method. This technique...

In a new study, scientists believe that another source of lunar water could involve the Earth’s magnetosphere. Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the Moon could be one of the sources of the identified...

A research team have analysed different ways of generating power, deciding that solar energy could be used to power a mission to Mars. It can be argued that no other planet in our Solar System has sparked human interest and...

Researchers have identified and classified populations of similar exoplanet atmospheres in order to improve our knowledge of planetary formation. An international team of researchers examined data for 25 exoplanets and discovered a variety of links among the properties of the...

An international scientific group has managed to measure for the first-time oscillations in the brightness of a neutron star (magnetar) during its most violent moments. In just a tenth of a second the magnetar released energy equivalent to that produced...

The new standard for X-ray transition energies set for neon, carbon dioxide, and sulphur hexafluoride paves a way to achieving a high accuracy analysis of astrophysical plasmas. The analysis of astrophysical plasmas is vital in the pursuit to learning more...

Despite global impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, 3,000 new jobs have been created in the UK space sector in one year. According to new figures released today (13 April 2022), demonstrate that employment in the UK space sector has risen...

UK institutions have been granted £15m to develop the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, which is the biggest radio telescope in the world. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is positioned to investigate the evolution of the early...