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…
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“In space, no one can hear you scream” was the tagline of the 1979 box office film success Alien. And it’s true. Sound waves propagate mechanically…
These days, we’re used to seeing pictures of planets sent back by spacecraft. Some pictures look colourful, others less so. But do they show what each…
A new mini robotic laboratory going to the south pole of the Moon to search for water could “enable a new wave of human exploration of…
Data is currently being received and reviewed from the ExoMars Mission – the launch of a spacecraft in March to demonstrate Europe’s first ever landing on…
Professor Monica Grady explains why she thinks space travel will make earth a better place to live. There is a small but growing set of people…
One of the moon’s greatest mysteries has long been whether it has any water. During the Apollo era in 1960s and 70s, scientists were convinced it…
Space, it’s very out there. The exploration of the stars, galaxies and moons is all very exciting but it can seem a bit removed from our…
It was only a matter of 700 million years or so after Earth formed and its surface cooled and solidified that life began to flourish on…
The world’s astronomers – including scientists from the OU – are creating a telescope which they hope will uncover the mysteries of space. The Large Synoptic Survey…