An Open University scientist has been handpicked by the European Space Agency (ESA) and offered a Fellowship to continue her studies into how the surface of…
The age old question of whether Mars has ever supported life is the focus of the latest research from scientists at The Open University (OU). With…
An ice-filled Martian crater is visible in the first photographs of Mars transmitted from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). After a year of extremely dangerous…
A team of scientists led by The Open University has discovered evidence of recent glacial meltwater on Mars, despite the widely-held view that the recent climate…
Scientists from the OU have discovered a new phenomenon that could explain the long-debated mystery of how recent land features on Mars are formed in the…
Given that there are ambitious plans to colonise Mars in the near future, it is surprising how much we still have to learn about what it…
As part of a special week of Mars programmes on BBC Radio 4, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, Monica Grady, presents a 30 minute special…
The quest to discover whether life exists, or has existed, on the Planet Mars has been one of the driving forces of space science research for…
There has been Band Aid, USA for Africa and Peter Kay’s Animated All Star Band. But today a new name is being added to the list…
In the same week the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its ExoMars Mission, we spoke to OU PhD student Rhian Chapman about dust storms on the Red…
