National Apprenticeship Week 2018: Meet the UK Space Agency Apprentices
As part of National Apprenticeship Week 2018, we’re celebrating apprentices and the benefits they bring to the workplace.
Exploring Mars in Virtual Reality
What did you get up to on Monday? I went for a walk on Mars.
Microgravity Science in the Sky
I recently had the opportunity to join the University of Brighton, helping them carry out an experiment on a parabolic flight.
We’re celebrating the UK’s efforts to tackling climate change at COP23
COP23 is the 23rd annual conference under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Nations are coming together to progress the Paris Agreement which aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change.
Newton’s apple seeds
I’ve just met some remarkable seedlings at Wakehurst Place in West Sussex, where Kew Gardens keeps its Millennium Seed Bank. They are the experts when it comes to anything to do with storing and growing plant seeds.
Shining the light on Dark Matter
Happy Dark Matter Day! Thomas Kitching, Reader in Astrophysics, gives an overview of Dark Matter and the UK's involvement in Euclid. A mission which will map the geometry of the dark Universe.
ExoMars field trip
Who would have thought that preparation for Europe's ExoMars mission includes a crash course in Geology and a couple of visits to the first aider.
World Space Week: International Partnership Programme
This week we're celebrating all things space!
Helen Walker
It is with great sadness that we recently learned of the death of one of our colleagues, Dr Helen Walker.
Looking back on Cassini-Huygens
In the early 80’s, in what seems a lifetime ago but is only half a lifetime, I returned to Imperial College from a spell in the USA.