Last week a Chinese space mission made history when it landed on the far side of the moon and sent back images of this mysterious lunar…
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Professor David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University discusses China’s recent successful mission to land its robotic spacecraft on the far side of the…
The Open University and European partner institutions are creating a way to open up science research to all to get involved. This will include citizen science…
Scientists from The Open University are among an international team which has discovered a new planet orbiting the closest single star to the Sun. The discovery…
A new five-year partnership has been agreed between The Open University (OU)’s Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) and innovative technology company Teledyne e2v. Together the collaboration…
In Star Wars VI we first meet the Ewoks living on the Forest Moon of Endor. The planet Endor itself is a gas giant, but the…
Ever gazed at the night sky and wondered what’s up there? With more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all of…
What would The Planets, the famous suite by English composer, Gustav Holst, sound like if it were created in the modern day? Celebrating 100 years since…
Scientists from The Open University (OU) have discovered a series of large fan-shaped sediment deposits on the surface of Mars. These suggest that Mars once had…
In 2009, in celebration of the Open University’s 40th Anniversary, we asked academics from around the University to predict what the future would look like in…