May 2016
Rare Mercury transit complete
By 8.00pm BST yesterday, the rare transit of Mercury as it passed in front of the Sun, had come to a close. The event, that occurs due to the alignment of the Sun, Mercury and Earth, is a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century ...
08 September 2017
The solar systems most powerful auroras are still a mystery
... more distant astrophysical systems accelerate particles to such immense energies. “Jupiter is the link between the nearby space environments we study at planets like Earth, and distant astrophysical systems where magnetic fields hold sway, such...
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... science instruments on the MPO and three out of five on the MMO to examine the planet’s atmosphere and space environment. Now, following the detection of phosphine from telescopes on Earth, the team want to see if one of those instruments...
01 August 2019
Mercury: the View after MESSENGER
MESSENGER (a somewhat contrived acronym for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) was the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, between 2011 and 2015. As ...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
...have around 25. As part of the AGES (Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey) we have used the Arecibo telescope, in Puerto... problem to be working on at the moment, and watch this space (… no pun intended)! Olivia Keenan completed her Masters degree in ...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
... and even in ones far from the Sun in the cold space environment," says Jean Manfroid from the University of Liège, Belgium, who ... with heavy metal atoms had only been observed in hot environments, such as in the atmospheres of ultra-hot exoplanets or...
