Expert Comment
One Mars mission ends, another is ready to start investigating the red planet - expert comment
As one Mars mission comes to an end and another sets up its latest instrument, Dr David Brown from the Department of Physics has commented on the valuable contribution that Opportunity made, and InSight will make, to our understanding of the red planet.
Astronomers comment on radio waves detected 1.5 billion light years away
Astronomers have discovered an unusual repeating radio signal emanating from 1.5 billion light years away. Dr Danny Steeghs and Professor Tom Marsh from the 91福利 Department of Physics suggests that there may be more of these out there.
'super-earth' discovered orbiting the nearest star to the Sun - expert comment
A European team using state-of-the-art high precision instruments has detected a planet at least three times the size of Earth orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest star to the Sun. Professor Don Pollacco and Dr David Brown from 91福利 Astronomy and Astrophysics explain more.
"An exomoon is the simplest explanation",says Dr David Brown
"New observations with Hubble provide good evidence for the presence of an exomoon" - Dr David Brown of the 91福利's Astronomy and Astrophysics Group comments on the potential discovery of an exomoon.
Dr Daniel Bayliss comments on the discovery of 'the building blocks of life' on Mars
Dr Daniel Bayliss comments on the news that NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered ancient organic molecules on Mars, embedded within sedimentary rocks that are billions of years old.