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This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.

The newly released first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile mark the start of a ten-year mission involving UCL researchers to create an ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the Universe and help to pin down what dark energy might be. The observatory is named in honour of a trailblazing US astronomer who discovered evidence for dark matter.

Durham scientists play key role in global space survey as first Rubin Observatory images released Scientists from our top-rated Physics department are playing a major role in the world's most ambitiou

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built, has revealed its 'first look' images at the start of its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

Astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and Europe, have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet, which should not exist under leading planet formation theories.

The process of necrosis, a form of cell death, may represent one of the most promising ways to change the course of human aging, disease and even space travel, according to a new study from researchers at UCL, drug discovery company LinkGevity and the European Space Agency (ESA).

A small piece of outer space recreated in a basement in Glasgow could help ensure that a key enabling technology for future space missions won't lead to deadly 'rifle bullets' of space junk circling the Earth.

Writing in The Conversation, PhD Candidate Jasleen Chana (UCL Science and Technology Studies) explains why it is important to move away from narratives that inform us that science, spaceflight and success are only synonymous with fame and exceptionalism.

A major new grant will help to establish the University of Glasgow as one of the UK's leaders in atom-by-atom of analysis of materials which could support human habitations on the Moon and beyond.

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which involves UCL researchers, has released its most detailed analysis yet of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion.

Scientists from our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy and our Institute for Computational Cosmology are playing a crucial role as part of a major international space mission to map the Universe.

The first batch of survey data from the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, whose massive visible-light camera was built by a UCL-led team, includes more than 380,000 galaxies catalogued thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and citizen science efforts. Covering a huge area of the sky in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and 500 gravitational lens candidates - cases where light from distant galaxies has been bent and distorted by normal and dark matter in the foreground.

Euclid, the European Space Agency telescope whose massive optical camera was designed and built by an international team led by UCL researchers, has captured a rare phenomenon known as an Einstein ring which reveals the extreme warping of space caused by a galaxy's gravity.

Imperial's Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien are celebrating the impact of the Solar Orbiter as they mark five years since it first launched.

An international space mission currently mapping the dark Universe has discovered a rare 'Einstein Ring' in a galaxy not far away.

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery-Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy (GRG), whose name means trouble in isiZulu and isiXhosa.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up more than three trillion observations of two billion stars and other objects over a decade to revolutionise our view of the galaxy.

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), is challenging scientific understanding of how planetary systems form.

Researchers at a Scottish university have taken one small step towards a future where orbital factories can 3D print future tech on demand in space.

An international team of physicists, led in the UK by our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, has discovered over 40 previously unknown stars. The team made the discovery when studying the distant Dragon Arc galaxy, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Dragon Arc is located behind a massive cluster of galaxies called Abell 370.

Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the winter, or a much-needed nap after Christmas dinner, this black hole has overeaten to the point that it is lying dormant in its host galaxy.