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Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to design Earth-observation satellite missions that could help protect the space environment while continuing to deliver vital data for tackling global challenges, such as climate change, food production, supply chain vulnerabilities and environmental degradation.

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI collaboration are trained using real scientific datasets.

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first time. Dark energy is the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe and represents about 70% of the total content of the universe.

A new collaboration between University of Glasgow engineers and the European Space Agency (ESA) has showcased the potential of nomadic mobile communications networks to enable remote healthcare.

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL and Cardiff University.

Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest 'dead' galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole can slowly starve a galaxy rather than tear it apart. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), to study a galaxy in the early universe - about three billion years after the Big Bang.

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration involving UCL researchers has achieved a new record in its search for dark matter and for the first time picked up signals from neutrinos produced in the Sun's core, a milestone in sensitivity. Analysing data from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector collected over 417 days, the international research team put the best-ever limits on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass.

A new research collaboration which fuses fashion and science is set to send bacteria into space - and the outcomes could create radiation-sensitive fabrics capable of preventing skin cancer on Earth and protecting space explorers on the Moon.

A University of Manchester astronomer is set to build the most detailed and accurate model of the radio sky ever built, offering new insights into the first stars, galaxies, and possibly new physics.

The largest multi-object spectroscopic survey facility in the southern hemisphere, which UCL engineers helped design and build, has taken its first observations, marking the start of its scientific journey.

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. The 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), mounted on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope in Chile, achieved its 'first light' on 18 October 2025: a milestone marking the start of its scientific mission.

Image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the remains of a Type Ia supernova in a neighbouring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, 160,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard. A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky - such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, or a fast-moving asteroid - and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training.

New detector concept uses cutting-edge optical cavity and atomic clock technologies to sense gravitational waves in the elusive milli-Hertz frequency band. Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with current instruments.

A powerful software tool capable of accurately modelling how cameras capture light could help democratise the development of new imaging systems for use in space.

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Chris Done of our Physics Department, has made a surprising discovery about powerful winds blasting from around a neutron star.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are celebrating the 10th anniversary of one of the 21st century's key scientific achievements - the first direct detection of gravitational waves. https://youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c On14 September 2015, a signal arrived on Earth from a pair of remote black holes that had spiralled together and merged.

Astronomers have solved a centuries-old puzzle surrounding one of the Universe's oldest and densest star systems.

Three views of the same nebula, presented side by side. The left and middle images, which are labeled 'Hubble Optical' and 'Hubble Near IR', show the nebula at roughly the same scale.

An international team of astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding new light on how galaxies grew and evolved in the early Universe.

The most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves have been discovered by scientists, with some of the analyses carried out by an international team that was led by an astrophysicist at the University of Glasgow.

A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This new research was led by Dr Djuna Croon from our top-rated Physics department, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Hawai'i and the University of Liverpool. The research team also included an undergraduate student from our Physics department.

Dr Cyril Bourgenot from our Centre for Advanced Instrumentation is part of a team developing cutting-edge technology to enable astronomers to look deeper into the Universe.