Leading space experts from Leicester will reveal their involvement in research and missions that are expanding our knowledge and helping us to tackle some of our planet’s biggest challenges at the UK Space Conference 2025 this week.
If we are to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we’ll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE.
Experts from the University of Leicester and have shed new light on our understanding of an extragalactic burst of X-rays known as an Fast X-ray Transient (FXT).
Whether you have aspirations to venture out into the cosmos, or to bring it back to Earth, Space Park Leicester will be demonstrating how Leicester expertise is enabling different approaches to space exploration at a national conference this month.
Space Park Leicester scientists have passed a key European Space Agency review, and now will proceed to design the Qualification Model of a Double-Walled Isolator that could handle and curate samples from a Mars Sample Return mission.
Space Park Leicester welcomed a high-level delegation from the United States, as part of a UK-wide programme organised by the UK Government’s Department for Business and Trade, in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
The first images have been released from a new observatory that will scan the sky repeatedly to reveal features of our universe never seen before.
Experts from Space Park Leicester and the University of Leicester have been invited to join the Invest in UK University R&D Midlands Campaign and the Midlands Aerospace stand at this year’s Paris International Airshow.
The impact the Northern Lights has on our world will be explored by a leading expert in the field at a free talk at Space Park Leicester.
University of Leicester scientists are to work on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, as they help to upgrade one of its experiments.
