Space
Guest post: We’re calling – but will aliens pick up?
Research impact and institutes 18th May 2023
Might aliens – one day – discover humans, and not the other way around? Student Lucinda Shirreffs considers exciting new research suggesting just that.
Guest post: Some stars have a pulse – and astronomers have cosmic stethoscopes
Research impact and institutes 4th May 2023
Student Lucinda Shirreffs sets focus on pulsars – and how Manchester researchers are helping to measure their properties in greater accuracy than ever before.
‘Make it so’ – creating super-strength concrete from Mars dust, potatoes and salt
Research impact and institutes 13th April 2023
Discover the ‘cosmic concrete’ that Manchester scientists believe might, one day, enable humans to build a colony on Mars – and aid the climate fight on Earth.
Climbing the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank
Heritage 15th March 2023
We don our hard hats to climb Jodrell Bank’s incredible Lovell Telescope and meet the remarkable people who work there – keeping it safe 24/7.
Science, space and singalongs: A stellar day at Bluedot
UOM life 1st August 2022
The Hub spent a brilliant day at the unique science and music celebration that is Bluedot Festival – here’s what we saw, and learnt!
Guest post: Binary star breakthrough – revealing planet formation around twin stars
Departments 11th May 2022
Discover how Manchester researchers, led by Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez, have investigated planet formation from gas and dust in the binary star system SVS 13.
The Buzz S3, E1: Are we entering a new space age?
The Buzz podcast 28th April 2022
Dr Ciara McGrath helps us blast off season three of The Buzz podcast by answering the question: Are we entering a new space age?
Supermassive black holes to rock (\m/) time and space
Departments 3rd March 2022
Astronomers have discovered an epic cosmic waltz in the heart of our galaxy, with two supermassive black holes orbiting each other once every two years.
On a (space) mission to inspire young women engineers: Dr Ciara McGrath
Departments 18th November 2021
Dr Ciara McGrath, a finalist in the 2021 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards, discusses her stellar research, career, and the future of engineering.
Blood from a stone? No, but it could make bricks – on Mars!
Research impact and institutes 7th October 2021
Discover the – quite literal – way that blood, sweat and tears could help humans develop the building materials needed to colonise Mars.