MSSL Mullard Space Science Laboratory

14/08/2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2024/jul/complex-molecules-essential-life-can-form-dust-around-young-stars

The mystery of how complex molecules essential to life first formed may have been solved by a new study involving UCL’s Dr Paola Pinilla.

04/04/2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2024/mar/new-image-reveals-magnetic-fields-edge-milky-ways-central-black-hole

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration involving UCL’s Dr Ziri Younsi has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*).

21/03/2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2024/mar/survey-reveals-secrets-planet-birth-around-dozens-stars

A team of astronomers including UCL’s Professor Paola Pinilla have conducted one of the largest ever surveys of planet-forming discs, shedding new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation.

21/03/2024

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has long been thought of as one of the most habitable worlds in the Solar System, but as Professor Andrew Coates (UCL Space & Climate Physics) writes in The Conversation, new atmosphere samples have raised questions over its potential to sustain life.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2024/mar/analysis-jupiters-moon-makes-less-oxygen-we-thought-affecting-chances-finding-life

11/02/2024

Professors Silvia Zane and Kinwah Wu are part of the NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) team that has recently been awarded the 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize, top prize in high-energy astronomy.

19/01/2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2024/jan/new-image-supermassive-m87-black-hole-one-year

The global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration involving UCL researcher Dr Ziri Younsi has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87.

11/12/2023

An international collaboration involving UCL researchers has discovered six planets orbiting their central star in a rhythmic beat, a rare case of an “in sync” gravitational lockstep that could offer deep insight into planet formation and evolution.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2023/nov/six-planets-synchronised-dance-lasting-billion-years

30/11/2023

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2023/nov/ucl-scientists-help-build-new-instrument-mars-rover

UCL researchers will play a role in building a new instrument on the Rosalind Franklin rover, replacing Russian-made components, so that the Mars mission can launch in 2028.

11/11/2023

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/news/2023/nov/graziella-branduardi-raymont
Staff, students and friends of MSSL have paid tributes to Professor Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, who passed away on 3rd November after several weeks in hospital.

20/09/2023

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/news/2023/sep/ucl-named-university-year

UCL has been awarded the University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.