The sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface – here’s why it matters

11 August 2017

My favourite science news is the stuff that changes the way I think about the world and our place in the universe. Many dinosaurs were covered in feathers; there’s a planet in the habitable zone around the nearest star in the night sky; the universe is expanding faster and faster but no one yet knows […]

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OU names first recipient of astrobiology legacy award

29 June 2016

The first recipient of an astrobiology award in memory of the late Professor Barrie Jones – an OU astrobiologist – has been named. Lisa Kaltenegger, Director of the Cornell Carl Sagan Institute and Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, New York, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Barrie Jones Award. It recognises an […]

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