A satellite telescope designed to rapidly hunt down the universe’s biggest explosions will launch later this week, carrying technology developed at the University of Leicester.
An international team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Leicester, has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers.
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a distant planet outside our solar system – and unlike anything in it – to reveal what is likely a highly reflective world with a steamy atmosphere.
This month The Gaia Collaboration will be honoured with the 2023 Berkeley Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy for developing a transformative, multidimensional map of the Milky Way.
