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Pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations, particularly where these are expanding side by side, according to new

Saturn's magnetic shield is asymmetrical compared to Earth’s, suggests a new study involving UCL researchers, and this is likely a result of its fast rotation and the heavy material it pulls round it

Dr Paola Pinilla (Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL) has been named as a laureate and Dr Michael Booth (UCL Chemistry) as a finalist in the 2026 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK.

UCL students have impressed judges with their space ideas and innovations at this year’s global space challenge Act in Space 2026.

Just over a year since SMILE arrived in the Netherlands in two parts, the now-complete and thoroughly-tested spacecraft has left for its journey to its launch site in French Guiana.

Members of the Space and Climate Physics Department gathered on 12 November to celebrate outstanding achievements at this year’s Space and Climate Physics Awards.

UCL researchers are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build one of the core instruments on a flagship NASA mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

NASA have a plan to send a robotic space mission to the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to boost the altitude of its orbit, potentially adding a decade or more to its lifetime.

Congratulations to our departmental LEAF and Green Impact teams for another successful year and for winning their first LEAF award!

The newly released first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile mark the start of a ten-year mission involving UCL researchers to create an ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the Universe and help to pin down what dark energy might be.

UCL has been named the ninth best university in the 2026 QS World University Rankings, the third year in a row the university has held this position.

Gas in planet-forming discs, which provides fuel for giant planets to form, disperses in just a few million years, according to new research by an international team including UCL astronomers.

The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the first ever images of the Sun’s south pole.

The deadline for preliminary applications for an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship at MSSL is 16.00 on Tuesday 1 July 2025.

Astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and Europe, have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant plan