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09 May 2012

First instrument for the JWST is completed and handed over to NASA
After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter's moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space Agency and NASA....
24 April 2012

Cassini sees new objects blazing trails in Saturn ring
Strange objects that are half a mile long and leave glittering trails behind them have been discovered punching through part of Saturn's F ring, one of the more recently discovered rings around Saturn....
19 April 2012

Solar Storm Warning in Nature
"We should prepare for a space weather event that might happen only once in 1,000 years". One of the arguments put forward by Professor Mike Hapgood, Chair of an expert group advising the Government on space weather risks, in a comment piece for this week's Nature....
21 March 2012

VISTA produces spectacular panoramic view of the distant Universe
The most detailed infrared image ever taken of a region of space large enough to be representative of the distant Universe has been released by a team led by the University of Edinburgh. The image from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope reveals more.....
06 March 2012

Mars Mission Control @ Your School
The RAL Space Robotics Team have successfully secured funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the UK Space Agency to develop educational projects within schools....