25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla. The team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary, University of London, used HARPS as part of an ongoing project to observe Proxima Centauri called the Pale Red Dot campaign. "The...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
... another team; Niels Ligterink at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands and Audrey Coutens at University College London, United Kingdom. Along with a spectrographic analysis of the protostar’s light to determine the chemical constituents around...
26 July 2017
Cassini finds surprises for Saturn's magnetic field
... previously estimated and quite challenging to explain," said Michele Dougherty, Cassini magnetometer investigation lead at Imperial College, London. The tilt also helps scientists figure out how long a day is on Saturn, as a tilt to its magnetic...
20 November 2017
New £29 million AI and robotics space hub for UK
... way. The University of Surrey will be doing this alone however and have teamed up with Imperial College London and the Universities of Edinburgh, Liverpool, Salford and Warwick on the core research programme of the Hub. Professor...
