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Is there life on Mars?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/15-is-there-life-on-mars
The university of Leicester is working closely with NASA and the European Space Agency to determine the age-old question, is there life on...
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ISS Commander shows support for University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-iss-commander-shows-support-for-university-of-leicester
The Commander of the International Space Station (ISS), Alexei Ovchinin who took over command in July 2019 has thrilled students and academics at...
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Space School celebrates 30 years since launch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-space-school-30-years
Space School UK is celebrating its 30th anniversary in July 2019, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings.
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Leicester Professor to lead UK Space Science Strategy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-martin-barstow-uksa
Professor Martin Barstow has been appointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency’s Science Programme Advisory Committee, leading the UK's approach to...
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Leicester technician wins prestigious Papin Prize
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-lory-francescut-papin-prize-hets
A technician from the University of Leicester has won a prestigious Papin Prize at the Higher Education Technicians Summit (HETS) conference in...
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Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly...
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Modelling reveals new insight into the electrical conductivity of ionic liquids
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/06-ionic-liquids-relay-race
A collaborative investigation has revealed new insight into how room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) conduct electricity, which may have a great...
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The ‘Forbidden Planet’ has been found in the Neptunian Desert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/30-new-exoplanet-neptune-forbidden-planet
New research by an international group of researchers, including Dr Matt Burleigh and Dr Emma Longstaff of the Department of Physics and Astronomy...
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Physics students take off
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-norway-space-students
David Jessop, Jamie Macquillin and Lewis Jackson were selected for the trip alongside 20 other students from across Europe.
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Revealing branching time in single-cell omics data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/07-revealing-branching-time-mathematics
New single-cell omics technology allows scientists to analyse cell development in ways that were not previously possible.