NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRAC...
Read article: NASA launches TRACERS mission to study Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’
Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed Astronomer Royal in the post's 350-year history
Read article: IOP president-elect Michele Dougherty named next Astronomer Royal
Group says lives are being threatened by a shortage of information
Read article: Scientists decry ‘scientific injustice’ over lack of climate data in developing regions
Report says companies see 'huge advantages' in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing crystals in space
Read article: UK ‘well positioned’ to exploit space manufacturing opportunities, says report
Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics has reduced in recent years, with the fields becoming more white
Read article: Diversity in UK astronomy and geophysics declining, finds survey
Flexible-working options as well as diversity, equity and inclusion reporting could help dismantle entrenched barriers
Read article: Diversity in the UK tech sector must improve, says report
Giaever made pioneering progress in the late 1950s on electron tunnelling in superconductors
Read article: Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96
UC Davis student wins journal award for developing a novel brain phantom for positron emission tomography
Read article: PhD student Ekaterina Shanina wins Early Career Researcher Award for PET phantom study
Inaugural MIT Quantum Index Report finds that venture capital funding is providing billions of dollars into the field
Read article: Large-scale commercial applications of quantum computing remain a distant promise, claims report
Pictures include the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas and the Virgo cluster
Read article: Vera C Rubin Observatory reveals its first spectacular images of the cosmos
