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A new research Dr David Mahon of the University of Glasgow has received £459,000 in new funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to support the project, which aims to reduc

An international team including UCL researchers have received €3 million from the European Union to complete a conceptual study of a telescope that could become operational in Chile after 2040.

Albert Einstein's transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

A new index, based on measures of so-called resilience, is needed to help gauge the success of policies aimed at preserving humanity's ability to live within Earth's resources, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. In a paper published in the journal One Earth , researchers from UCL, the University of Southampton and the University of East Anglia outlined the case for moving towards an 'holistic' approach to gauging policy success which incorporates environmental and societal wellbeing measures in addition to economic ones.

A team of astrophysicists, led by our Institute for Computational Cosmology, have developed a new model that could estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge in our Universe and beyond.

Cardiff scientists are key participants in a $1bn space mission being considered by NASA to explore the secrets of the universe.

The European Space Agency's Euclid space mission has revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing the capabilities of the spacecraft's massive optical camera which was designed and built by a UCL-led team.

Over 1.5 billion objects in the Milky Way have been mapped in a project involving UCL researchers. Over the course of 13 years, the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey and its extension, the VVV eXtended survey (VVVX), observed the central regions of the Milky Way. The surveys used VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a European Southern Observatory (ESO) facility in Chile, with 420 nights of observation capturing approximately 200,000 images, generating 500 terabytes of scientific data.

The European Space Agency's Plato satellite, which will search for Earth-like planets orbiting the habitable zone of stars, is a step closer to launch after a UCL-led team delivered key electronics for the mission.

Our top-rated Physics department has made significant contributions to an innovative international project that's shedding new light on the mysteries of our universe.

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

The first satellite in the European Space Agency's Cluster quartet safely came back down to Earth on Sunday, marking a successful end to a decades-long mission involving UCL researchers.

We're part of an international team of astronomers who have been able to take a photograph of the halo of gas around a galaxy for the first time.

At the Festival of Engineering, VPEE Student Journalist Caroline Coyer attended the 'Interstellar Engineering' event and shared her insights on the exciting overlap between space exploration, medical advancements, and engineering.

New results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration involving UCL researchers have put the best-ever limits on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics.

The newly announced Ariel Data Challenge 2024, led by UCL researchers, is calling all data scientists, astronomers, and AI enthusiasts to help uncover the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES , the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph.

Five new views of the Universe have been released today, captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid telescope, whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers.

Scientists have released the first set of scientific data captured with the Euclid telescope, showing an exciting glimpse of the Universe's distant past. The telescope, launched in July 2023, is part of the Dark Energy Satellite Mission , which aims to map the dark Universe. Led by t'he European Space Agency in collaboration with The Euclid Consortium - which includes astronomers at The University of Manchester in leadership positions - the mission seeks to unlock mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and reveal how and why the Universe looks as it does today.

The University of Southampton is leading the first ever study of the environmental impact of satellites burning up as they re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Particles and gases - such as aluminium, lithium, chlorine and nitrogen oxide - are released as decommissioned satellites combust when they re-enter the atmosphere.