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30 July 2025

Professor Michele Dougherty appointed as new Astronomer Royal

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10 February 2025

Imperial Solar Orbiter team mark five years of studying the Sun up close

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21 October 2024

Space probe proposal and climate research funding: News from Imperial

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20 September 2024

Photo story: Imperial instrument installed on a solar-wind-studying spacecraft

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05 September 2024

Imperial professor appointed Executive Chair of major UK science funding body

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15 July 2024

‘Morning’ and ‘evening’ detected on an exoplanet

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05 July 2024

Repurposed technology used to probe new regions of Mars’ atmosphere

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03 November 2023

Q&A with Dr Nicky Fox: NASA’s Head of Science and Imperial alum

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27 July 2023

Imperial researcher awarded £1m for magma-mapping project

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14 June 2023

Origin of superfast solar wind found by spacecraft flying close to the Sun

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23 May 2023

How Imperial is helping build the next generation of space careers

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16 May 2023

JUICE magnetometer passes fitness tests and is ready to take data

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02 May 2023

Signs that a rocky exoplanet could have an atmosphere detected by JWST

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26 April 2023

Imperial-led Jupiter-bound instrument successfully deployed

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17 April 2023

Imperial researchers team up with NASA to launch new citizen science study

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14 April 2023

Space mission to Jupiter’s icy moons launches with Imperial-built kit on board

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13 January 2023

Imperial astrophysicists recognised for teaching and research excellence

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13 July 2022

Imperial students set to send reusable rocket into space

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08 June 2022

Comet-mapping mission gets the go-ahead

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18 May 2022

Solar storms can be predicted a day in advance, shows mission to the Sun

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01 April 2022

Making cancer vulnerable and building bridges with MPs: News from the College

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14 October 2021

Imperial to build instrument for new NASA mission to study the solar wind

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06 October 2021

When the solar wind hits Earth’s magnetosphere, a surprising stillness ensues

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17 August 2021

Mini space mission launches with Imperial kit on board

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