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Simeon Barber from The Open University developed the sensor on the Peregrine Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer which will be onboard Peregrine Mission One.

The device will analyse the thin lunar atmosphere as well as find out more about how water might be moving around the moon.

It’s going to be a bumper time for space missions in 2024 – especially to the Moon, our nearest neighbour. And that’s following on from an already epic 2023.

Other lives: Lecturer who helped to set up a controversial social sciences degree course at the Open University

Mercury’s radius may have decreased by as much as 7km, models and observations indicate.

You’d think a tax-obsessed Tory party would want to know what these exemptions add up to, says Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, a senior lecturer at the Open University

The discovery was quite interesting because, although such spherules are distributed globally, it is not easy to recover them from the depths of the ocean bed – requiring a dredging operation with a powerful magnet.

The Open University has carried out the UK’s largest study into attitudes to and experiences of online violence against women and girls.

Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University in the US, has published a press release claiming that some of the 700 or so spherical metallic fragments (spherules) he recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Papua New Guinea, are from beyond the Solar System.

Nearly two in five Scottish organisations don’t have specific skills initiatives in place for underrepresented groups

Other lives: Peace activist who joined the Land Reform Movement in India in 1950s