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The Open University at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019
The “Living on the Moon” exhibit took place at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition last week and proved very popular, with an estimate...
Ariel space mission moves one step closer to reality
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) exoplanet mission Ariel, set to launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation...
Lift-off planned for historic mission to the Moon
Peregrine Mission One, which successfully launched today (8 January 2024), marks a historic journey from Florida to the Moon. The mission is a...
NASA’s JWST reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
NASA’s JWST just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies secured by research from experts...
Moon Night
Wednesday 30 November, 5:00pm - 9:00pm Re-emerging as a live, face-to-face event, Moon Night will give you an insight into the university's...
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...
World Space Week at the OU
We are running a number of online panel events in World Space Week open to everyone. You can find out more on the links below, where you can sign-up...
Asteroid is officially named after The Open University
Academics in the School of Physical Sciences are celebrating after learning that an asteroid situated more than 126 million miles from Earth has...
Spacescapes Exhibition – Geological Society ‘Year of Space’
https://youtu.be/JTh-HemASis The Spacescapes exhibition is part of the ‘Year of Space’, a series of events run by the Geological Society of...
Open University lab final destination for extraterrestrial samples that could reveal secrets of the Universe
Scientists from The Open University have today taken delivery of pristine samples from an asteroid which could reveal the secrets to how our Solar...
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...
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...
Congratulations to OU Space Science Club
We congratulate the Open University Space Science Club (@space_ou), which has won the National UK Students for the Exploration of Space (UKSEDS)...
Catch-up with “Things that go bump in the night…sky!”
https://youtu.be/HSimn3wXc0A "Things that go bump in the night...sky" features three OUSTEM Academics sharing their research and their...
SPS Researcher involvement on NASA mission to sample asteroid Bennu
Space rocks returning from near-Earth asteroid Bennu on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring never-before-seen samples back to Earth. Open...
Groundbreaking discovery could signal life on Venus
Scientists from across the globe, including Dr Helen Fraser of The Open University, have detected a rare gas – phosphine – in the...
Living on the Moon’ return to The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2020
https://youtu.be/_rzfROZP7sE On Friday 17th July the ‘Living on the Moon’ team took part in The Royal Society’s Summer Science...
Applications for Ernest Rutherford Fellowship within SPS
The Science and Technology Facilities Council offer a number of Fellowships each year to early-career researchers working in research that...
Super-Earth planets detected orbiting nearby star
A system of super-Earth planets – possibly rocky worlds, but larger than Earth – has been detected orbiting the nearby star Gliese 887. An...
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...
Funding success to design sensors for X-ray telescopes
OU researchers within the School of Physical Sciences have been awarded €1 million by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a prototype...
OU to the Moon and back – Award nomination
The Open University has been shortlisted for an award by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations for its STEM campaign to mark the...
I’m A Scientist Get Me Out of Here
Two of our PhD students took part in the most recent ‘I’m a Scientist Get me Out of Here’ competition, which connects real students with real...
Registration open for our MSc in Space Science and Technology
Registrations are now open for our MSc in Space Science and Technology. Developed in consultation with the UK Space Agency and the space...
New £1 million grant to study space weather
We are delighted to announce that a team of researchers led by Dr Matthew Soman, Space Instrumentation Research Fellow, in the School of Physical...
Professor Monica Grady ‘1969 And All That’ talk
We welcomed Professor Monica Grady to the Berrill Lecture Theatre stage here at The Open University campus in Milton Keynes at the beginning of...
Launch of Chandrayaan-2: CEI involvement in mission science
The Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) in the School of Physical Sciences was involved in development of the X-ray detectors for the CLASS XRF...
Spectacular new five-part series: The Planets on BBC2
In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary story of our Solar System. For four and a half billion years...
Moon Night
The School of Physical Sciences, Dr Mahesh Anand, led another successful Moon Night on Friday 7th December, very ably assisted by thirty volunteers...
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...
ESA TV for Asteroid Day
https://youtu.be/3YiHRU1keSw You can catch-up here with the European Space Agency (ESA) show that was specially recorded as part of...