Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson paid a visit to The Open University on Thursday 29th June to see its award-winning OpenSTEM Labs, which are transforming…
The OU’s OpenSTEM Labs project has won the Outstanding Digital Innovation of the Year trophy at this year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMAs). This…
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 writer Anthony Burgess is most famous for his novel, A Clockwork Orange. This month marks the centenary of the writer’s birth and his dystopian vision…
There have been many discoveries of potentially habitable planets orbiting stars other than our own over the last few years. Now things are getting even more…
Most scientists agree that the Earth has pretty much always had its moon. Details of the moon’s composition (in particular the “isotopic mixture” of heavier and…
Dr Manish Patel was inspired by space at a young age; venturing out in the middle of the night stargazing with his dad and his telescope.…
Vibha Srivastava has always wanted to be an astronaut and work in space science, which wasn’t straightforward as a young women from North East India. Before…
The arrival of NASA’s Dawn mission at the huge asteroid “1 Ceres” in early 2015 has turned out to have been well worth waiting for. This…
An international team of astronomers has detected a planet orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. The research, which has been published in Nature to a global…
