Professor Andrew Norton, Professor of Astrophysics Education at The Open University writes for The Conversation about whether life could be sustained on Kepler 452-b. Kepler-452 is…
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Monica Grady, The Open University writing for The Conversation An Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet almost made it to the moon in April. It took a selfie…
Monica Grady, The Open University We’ve just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, glorying in the achievements of three astronauts and the team…
Miriam Frankel, The Conversation and Martin Archer, Queen Mary University of London What will space exploration look like in 2069, a century after the first moon…
As the world remembers the day 50 years ago that astronauts stepped on the Moon for the first time, the OU’s Dr Mahesh Anand, considers the…
When you meet the man who took the first “small step” for man on the Moon, it’s not surprisingly an occasion which sticks in your memory.…
Hannah Sargeant is a PhD student at The Open University, working on techniques to extract water from Moon rocks. As around the globe, people remember the…
Scientists from The Open University (OU) are supporting one of a series of ground-breaking missions by NASA to go back to the Moon. The announcement comes…
Science was the one subject Ray Barber loved since he was a boy. Working as a college technician with no qualifications, he embarked on an OU…
A team of UK scientists, led by The Open University, are revealing research which brings the possibility of living on the Moon much closer. The Living…