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BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down onto the surface of Mercury can trigger high-energy auroras. The mission, which has been enroute to the Solar System’s innermost planet since 2018, successfully carried out its first Mercury flyby on 1 October 2021. An international team of researchers analysed data from three of BepiColombo’s instruments during the encounter. The outcomes of this study have been published today in the scientific journal, Nature Communications.

London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2023 - Northumbria University in the UK is set to revolutionize the satellite communication systems, thanks to a generous funding award of 5 million pounds from the UK Space Agency. This investment will en

A £5 million award from the UK Space Agency will allow Northumbria University to take forward  research to build a new satellite communications system,

Just months after a successful launch from French Guiana, the two particle-detecting instruments APL built on behalf of NASA for Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission have already displayed their sophisticated capabilities.

A new Minecraft world based on the work of artist Oliver Jeffers and astronomer Professor Stephen Smartt, who is partly based at Queen’s University Belfast, has been downloaded over one million times since it was launched in April.The cosmic adventur