Scientists from across the globe, including Dr Helen Fraser of The Open University, have detected a rare gas – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus.…
An international team, including researchers from The Open University, has discovered that highly diverse plant life found in China can be traced back to the formation…
Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary Sciences at The Open University, discusses the latest missions to Mars in the hope for more answers about if there has…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid mission to study more than a billion galaxies is a step closer to launch as its two instruments are now…
On the eve of National Meadows Day, David Gowing, Professor of Botany at The Open University, explains why floodplain meadows are important and not just a…
An international team of scientists, including Professor Carole Haswell and Dr Ulrich Kolb of The Open University (OU), have discovered two, giant planets interacting near each…
A system of super-Earth planets – possibly rocky worlds, but larger than Earth – has been detected orbiting the nearby star Gliese 887. An international team…
David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University, discusses what it means to discover internal oceans on Pluto and other planets in the solar…
After joining the Army at just 16 years old, OU student Daniel Bingley was flying high in a military career when a terrible injury turned his…
Researchers from The Open University (OU), in collaboration with Cardiff University, have developed free software to monitor movement in people recovering from lower limb injury or…
