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New Clues from Asteroid Ryugu reveal how Earth became a habitable planet
Open University scientists Professor Ian Franchi and Dr Richard Greenwood have played a key role in new research that reveals clues about how Earth...
Celebrating our new Professor of Planetary Mineralogy, Susanne Schwenzer
We are celebrating a new Professor in EEES. Dr Susanne Schwenzer has recently been promoted to Professor of Planetary...
A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well...
OU study could provide first ever timeline of Jupiter’s origins
A new study by an OU academic has provided a ground-breaking new insight into a huge Solar System event, the formation and migration of Jupiter. The...
Ancient rivers increase chances of finding life at next Mars rover’s landing site
Rivers as wide as 600 metres once lay across the surface of Mars – according to new research from Birkbeck, University of London; The Open...
Asteroids: Sometimes good, sometimes bad – always amazing
Asteroids often get a bad press. Not surprising really as scientists think that a 10 km wide space rock that hit Earth 66 million years ago was...
Asteroid Day 2020: a celebration of our asteroid research
Asteroid Day To mark Asteroid Day, we have spent some time pulling together the various threads of asteroid research that take place within The...
Celebrations for three Open University Astronomy & Planetary Science students
Each year the OU awards a prize to the top performing student(s) in level 2 Astronomy (S284) and level 2 Planetary Science...
STFC funding for research on the Winchcombe meteorite
Researchers from the School of Physical Sciences have been involved in the ongoing analyses of the Winchcombe meteorite aptly named after the...
ExoMars science at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Some of our researchers are involved with this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2021, which is taking place online from Thursday...
Success at the Learning on Screen Awards
Congratulations to Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration Mahesh Anand and the team which produced '8 Days: to the Moon and...
A team of UK scientists, guided by meteor specialists, have recovered pieces of an extremely rare meteorite, a type which has never fallen anywhere in the UK before
Fragments of a fireball, which recently fell to Earth, have been located in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire and are now in the care of Museum...
3D maps of ozone and dust on Mars
A new research grant will make it possible to create maps of ozone and dust found on Mars as part of the ExoMars mission. The mission...
BAFTA nomination for ‘8 Days: To the Moon and Back’
We are congratulating Mahesh Anand, Professor of Planetary Science and Exploration on being shortlisted for a BAFTA on the...
SPS astronomers find signs of a disintegrating planet around a nearby star
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope, a team of OU astronomers within the School of Physical Sciences, led...
Ancient rivers on Mars more than 3.7 billion years old
Scientists from around the globe have discovered evidence of ancient rivers on Mars more than 3.7 billion years old, using high-resolution 3D...
OU awarded £2.5 million to further success in planetary sciences
The Open University (OU) has received £2.5 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund research in planetary...
OU researchers discover ancient water reservoirs inside Mars
A team of researchers, including scientists from The Open University (OU), have discovered ancient water reservoirs inside the mantle of Mars. OU...
SXP390 Student Prize 2024 – “OU student wins prize for study of the exoplanet Kepler-452b”
Each year the School of Physics recognises the achievement of its students through a series of prizes. One of those is the Paul Lidgett Prize,...
Newly detected green light observed around Mars
OU scientists, as part of an international team, have identified a never-before-seen, green glow surrounding Mars with the same characteristics as...
‘A Blue Planet to a Frozen Desert’ talk video available online
The recording of Professor Stephen Lewis' talk: A Blue Planet to a Frozen Desert, Exploring the Environments of Venus, Earth and Mars, is...
Professor Monica Grady at BlueDot festival
Monica Grady, Professor in Planetary Sciences, spoke this summer at the Bluedot festival, held annually since 2016 at Jodrell Bank Observatory in...
Mahesh Anand celebrating the Moon landing anniversary on the USS Hornet
Mahesh Anand, Reader in Planetary Science and Exploration within the School of Physical Sciences, visited the USS Hornet on 24th July 2019 on...
A journey to Mercury: TEDxLondon talk by Professor David Rothery
Professor David Rothery spoke at TEDxLondon in July about the upcoming BepiColombo mission, Europe’s first to Mercury. Setting off in October,...
OU scientist & NASA discover the surface of asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at the 500-metre-sized asteroid (101955) Bennu in December 2018. It's aim is to collect a sample from the surface...
SPS researchers take the Moon to Edinburgh Science Festival
Photo from L-R: Craig Walton (a PhD student at Cambridge and former intern and collaborator with Dr Mahesh Anand of SPS), Dr James Mortimer, Tara...
Asteroids and bringing space rocks back to Earth
Professor of Planetary and Space Science, Simon Green, is interviewed by the Space Boffins about asteroids, space rocks, and the next...
UK Space Agency grant awarded to SPS researcher to study ExoMars landing site
Dr Matt Balme has been awarded ~ £370K by the UK Space Agency for a project to observe and model the formation of wind-related landforms at...