The Open University (OU) has received £6.7 million to expand its Astrobiology Research Group to address fundamental questions about life beyond the Earth. The grant is…
Browsing: Space
Presented by Professor Brian Cox, The Planets is a sumptuous look at the beauty and the grandeur of eight planets, told across five episodes, beginning with A Moment In The Sun.
We tend to think of the moon as the archetypal “dead” world. Not only is there no life, almost all its volcanic activity died out billions…
How did the planets in our solar system come to be? This is just one of the questions PhD student Vincent Deguin, 28, and his fellow…
Monica Grady, The Open University writing for The Conversation. Water is essential for life on Earth and is one of our most precious natural resources. But…
As The Open University celebrates its 50 anniversary, we look back at some of the research projects which have shaped the course of OU research over…
The first results from the ExoMars mission – which includes instruments led by The Open University – give new evidence in the debate over whether methane…
The discovery of life on Mars would get pretty much everyone excited. But the scientists hunting for it would probably be happy no matter what…
Open University scientists are part of a UK team developing new technology which will be able to “smell” when fruit or vegetables are going off. It’s…
Professor David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University discusses a new method to help see the unseen bodies that are in the Kuiper belt.…