07/08/2025
Leicester space experts drive forward mission to find habitable worlds
Leading space experts from Leicester are helping to drive forward a groundbreaking mission searching for signs of life in the universe.
Leading space experts from Leicester are helping to drive forward a groundbreaking mission searching for signs of life in the universe.
Physicists and engineers on one of the UK’s most exciting space-related courses are being offered the chance to study at a US university which has helped develop technologies that have powered historic deep space missions.
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune, marking the first ever detection of a long-sought species (H3+) high in the atmosphere of the Ice Giant.
Ten of the UK’s leading experts in the field have been appointed to a new Strategic Advisory Board which will support the ongoing development of the University of Leicester’s Institute for Space and Space Park Leicester.
Dr Justin Filiberto, Deputy Chief of the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center will deliver a talk on ‘Assessing the Evidence for Active Basaltic Volcanism on Venus: Current Limitations and Future Prospects’.
Space Park Leicester and Executive Director Richard Ambrosi would like to thank the organisers, Chair and Co-Chair of the 32nd Pontignano Conference for the opportunity to participate in the annual event that brings together forward thinking leaders from across the UK and Italy.
Scientists from the University of Leicester and NASA are working together on combining radioisotope power systems with high efficiency power convertor technology to enable spacecraft to venture into new frontiers.
Space Park Leicester welcomed the public to the launch of its exhibition of Matt Turner’s visionary space-themed artworks on Tuesday as part of its World Space Week celebrations.
In celebration of World Space Week (4-10 October), Space Park Leicester is thrilled to announce a special exhibition of work by renowned Leicester space artist Matt Turner.
Using observations from a NASA suborbital rocket, an international team that includes a University of Leicester space scientist has, for the first time, successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields.