The Open University is marking its 50th birthday this year; it’s also 50 years since the first man walked on the Moon. This special series brings together Moon news, research and comment from our lunar scientists as well as peering into the future to reveal the exciting projects and lunar exploration which lie ahead.
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…
Hannah Sargeant spends her days exploring the universe. As a planetary scientist and PhD researcher at The Open University, Hannah, 26, is fulfilling her childhood dream…
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…
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…
You might think that comparing rocks from the Earth and the Moon would be like comparing chalk and cheese, but new research led by academics at…
