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As a scientist, it is not the "not knowing" that bothers me Dr Jillian Scudder , a research fellow in Physics and Astronomy, is working on an analysis of past galaxies.

Reach for the stars - and make 'em laugh Astrophysicist, stand-up comedian, playwright's muse, Dr Kathy Romer also recently headed up the University of Sussex's Physics and Astronomy Department's Athena SWAN initiative to advance the careers of female scientists.

University scientists play crucial role in securing new gravitational wave detector for India A brand new gravitational wave detector has been approved in India after crucial support and guidance was

Researchers have successfully simulated how a ring-shaped black hole could cause general relativity to break down: assuming the universe contains at least five dimensions, that is.

Twenty years ago, in Geneva, PhD student Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting another sun - something that astronomers had predicted, but never found. Today he continues his terra hunting for extreme worlds and Earth twins in Cambridge. We are constantly surprised by the diversity of the other worlds.

The first evidence that Saturn's upper atmosphere may, when buffeted by the solar wind, emit the same total amount of mass per second into its magnetosphere as its moon, Enceladus, has been found by UCL scientists working on the Cassini mission. Magnetospheres are regions of space that are heavily influenced by the magnetic field of a nearby planet and can contain charged particles in the form of plasma from both external and internal sources.

Dr Dave Clements is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial's Department of Physics and is due to launch his first collection of short science fiction stories.

A physicist who writes science fiction, talking up the future of materials at the World Economic Forum, and part two of a clinical trial diary.

Professor Martin Siegert explores some of the last unmapped areas of our planet - the land underneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Solar power provides up to 16 per cent of the UK's energy New project will enable more accurate measurement of Britain's solar energy supply The University of Sheffield is working with National Grid

The anticipation is over: The Force Awakens is with us. To a self-confessed geek like Karen Yu from the Institute for Manufacturing, this is like all of her Christmases coming at once.

As a 17-year-old sitting in the control room at NASA, alumnus Libby Jackson (BSc Physics 2002) decided that she wanted a career in the space industry.

Imperial's Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, chats to alumnus Andreas Mogensen, a recent visitor to the ISS and classmate of Tim Peake.

University of Liverpool physicists have been awarded £8.3million by the Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) to study the building blocks of the Universe. The funding will support key experiments being undertaken by the University's Particle Physics group in Europe, the US and Japan.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures and are sharing their expertise at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP21 (30 November-11 December 2015) to help world leaders and policy makers reach a global agreement on climate change.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are celebrating the successful launch of the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft.

The LISA Pathfinder mission successfully launched today, on its way to demonstrate technology for observing gravitational waves from space. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, predicted a century ago by Einstein in his theory of general relativity. Einstein's theory predicts that these fluctuations are generated by massive objects that can create large distortions in spacetime, such as supernova explosions.

The catalyst that allowed the evolution of complex life in Earth's oceans has been identified by a University of Bristol researcher. Up to 800 million years ago, the Earth's oceans were deprived of oxygen. It was only when microorganisms called phytoplankton, capable of performing photosynthesis, colonised the oceans - covering two thirds of our planet - that production of oxygen at a massive scale was made possible.

Scientists from the University of Glasgow are getting ready to see a decade's worth of painstaking work launched into space. On Wednesday December 2, the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft will blast off from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana atop a Vega rocket. Inside the Pathfinder is a highly sensitive 'optical bench' designed and built by a team from the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research.

Einstein's theory of general relativity changed the way we view the universe when it was proposed 100 years ago.

Black holes are where we could experience some of the most extreme effects of general relativity. So what happens if you fall into one? This week we are celebrating the 100 th anniversary of Einstein's theory of general relativity, which he published on 25 November 1915.

As Imperial celebrates 100 years of general relativity, we look at the history, current research, and future direction of Einstein's famous theory. Apples fall to the Earth. Planets go around the Sun. But by the end of the 19 th century, it was clear that when examined in great detail, something was wrong with Newton's theory of gravity - it did not always work.

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses whether we could directly engineer the climate and refreeze the poles.

Ever wondered if a fly can ride a bicycle, or whether you could survive only on water? A new website on evolution, created by Cambridge scientists and featuring contributions from luminaries including Sir David Attenborough, has some intriguing answers.

Imperial's inflatable planetarium made its debut appearance as Imperial took part in Creative Quarter 2015.

The Bristol Data Dome, housed inside At-Bristol Science Centre's Planetarium, will be launched next week [Wednesday 18 November] as part of the Festival of the Future City.

The SNO+ detector. Oxford technicians helped assemble the central 12m-diameter acrylic sphere from 225 separate tiles using the blue rigs designed and built in their workshop.

Ulinka Rublack, Professor of Early Modern European History, discusses the reputation of astronomer Johannes Kepler and his mother Katharina, and the criminal trial for witchcraft that lasted six years.

LISA Pathfinder (LPF), the test mission to demonstrate new technologies necessary for the planned gravitational wave observatory eLISA, will be shipped to the spaceport in Kourou on September 3rd, 2015, in preparation for launch. LISA Pathfinder paves the way for eLISA, a large space observatory for the direct observation of one of the most elusive astronomical phenomena - gravitational waves.

Analysis: How the neutrino could solve great cosmic mysteries and win its next Nobel Prize By Dr Simon Peeters , Reader (Physics and Astronomy) at the University of Sussex The humble neutrino particle won its fourth Nobel Prize in physics this year (also in , 1995 and 1988 ). Despite being millions of times smaller than other subatomic particles, it is of major importance in physics and could be the key to unravelling some of the universe's best-kept secrets.

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre will be part of the exciting new Destination Space programme.

The prize has been awarded to two physicists who discovered a strange property of neutrinos, which Imperial scientists are still unravelling today.

In 1991, chemist Helen Sharman blasted off for a seven-day mission to the Mir space station, becoming the first Briton in space.

Dr Joao Pedro De Magalhaes is a Senior Lecturer in Functional and Comparative Genomics in the University of Liverpool's Institute of Integrative Biology.

University researchers begin their search for tiny ripples in space University researchers have begun looking for the first direct evidence of the existence of gravitational waves. Two upgraded detectors, based at Hanford and Livingston in the US, have been brought online and are starting to search for signals with unprecedented accuracy as part of the Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project.

New funding for University outreach project gives thousands of Welsh schoolchildren access to global high-tech telescope network Primary school children in Wales will be given the chance to explore t

HARMONI will provide the world's largest visible and infrared telescope with unprecedented physical insights about objects in the distant Universe. University of Oxford researchers will lead the design and build of the HARMONI spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), as part of a contract signed today by the European Southern Observatory.

The Cassini space probe has detected unusually strong shock waves near Saturn, similar to those driven by supernovae. Data from the probe as it encountered these very strong shock waves is helping Imperial College London scientists to understand exploding stars (known as supernovae) and the nature of plasma - the fourth state of matter that occupies 99 per cent of the visible universe.

Analysis: How Hubble's successor will give us a glimpse into the very first galaxies By Dr Stephen Wilkins , Lecturer in Physics Astronomy at the University of Sussex A key feature of our understanding of cosmology is that the universe has a finite age.

Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time. In a research paper published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , an international team of astronomers describe surprising findings in their observations of the parent star, which is called HD 100546.

LISA Pathfinder (LPF), the test mission to demonstrate new technologies necessary for the planned gravitational wave observatory eLISA, will be shipped to the spaceport in Kourou on September 3rd, 2015, in preparation for launch. LISA Pathfinder paves the way for eLISA, a large space observatory for the direct observation of one of the most elusive astronomical phenomena - gravitational waves.

A new piece of technology which will help in the search for gravitational waves is setting off for South America on its final earthbound journey before heading to space.

Dr Andreas Mogensen launches next month on board a 10-day mission to restock the International Space Station and carry out zero-g science experiments.

Senior Science Adviser at European Space Agency discusses 'most exciting space exploration mission in decades' Almost a year since the Rosetta spacecraft rendezvoused with a comet over 400 million km