Geraint Jones was on holiday when Rosetta arrived and had no internet access. He saw the shape of the comet for the first time on a newspaper stand in Germany! Geraint is now project scientist for BepiColombo together with Johannes.

Is there life on Mars?🤔🚀 Dr. Catherine Regan from MullardSpaceScience discusses her work as a planetary scientist, our search for Martian life, and the upcoming Rosalind Franklin mission. Join our series to explore space's biggest questions with top experts. Learn more at

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Tomorrow 9th August is the last day to propose nominations for one Vice-President position on the Executive Board of the #Europlanet Society and Association!

The Royal Society's Industry Fellowships are now open for applications until 26 September. This scheme allows talented scientists and engineers to move between industry and academia to foster the exchange of knowledge and support collaboration. Read more: royalsociety.org/grants/industr…

Interested in an MSc in Planetary Science? 🪐🚀 Ours is a London-based taught postgrad course hosted by UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences P&A Dept, with modules also provided by EarthSciences UCL MullardSpaceScience & Birkbeck School of Natural Sciences. Applications still open to home students until 30 Aug! ucl.ac.uk/planetary-scie…

Time for the very first #ADC_2024 weekly roundup! We already have an incredible 1,488 Entrants 123 Participants 121 Teams & 352 Submissions! 🤩 The leaderboard is currently lead by lllleeeo, and the discussion forum is already bustling away! Join us? 😉 kaggle.com/competitions/a…

Could we move the Sun and take the whole solar system on a voyage through space? Prof Jay Farihi UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences discussed the plausibility of the latest outlandish idea to be featured on the New Scientist Dead Planets Society podcast newscientist.com/article/244245…

Water on Mars! Again! Except this discovery is important in understanding how the planet works: Victoria Gill 💙💛 explains: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Great to chat about the amazing findings on Mars today!

Cardiff Uni Physics Cardiff University If you haven't already, check our last video with ADC game designer Tara Tahseen! 👇x.com/ArielTelescope…

Excited for our Stargazing event on Thursday with Colne Valley Park Chiltern Society Woodoaks Farm West of London Astro South West Herts Astronomical Society. Looking forward to the opportunity of observing Saturn, Dumbbell and Ring Nebula, Andromeda galaxy and more 🔭🔭🌖🪐🌌

Registration for the 4th Annual ExoClock meeting is open! 🥳 🗓️When? 26th and 27th October 🗺️Where? University of Lisbon, Portugal If you cannot attend in person but want to join, no problem - just register for remote attendance! eventbrite.com/e/4th-exoclock…

BREAKING NEWS: Juice confirms that Earth is habitable! During its flyby of Earth on 20 August, #ESAJuice found ingredients for life in Earth’s atmosphere 😲 More details 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

"It will leave a very impressive legacy": the first satellite of the European Space Agency Cluster mission investigating Earth's magnetosphere, which involved Prof Andrew Fazakerley and others MullardSpaceScience UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences, has safely returned to Earth after 24 years in space ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/sep/…

Sometimes, to get to the heart of the matter, you need to dig deeper. 🍿 Episode 2 of the Rosalind Franklin rover series: Below the surface. 🔎 blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-ba…

A (belated, apologies...😬) 6th #ADC_2024 Weekly Roundup! Space Coders led the Ariel Data Challenge Leaderboard for almost the whole week, but were pipped on Fri 13th by new team ML is a hype (feat wk2 leader Sergei Fironov!) - still v tight at the top! x.com/ArielTelescope…

📢 7th #ADC_2024 Weekly Roundup! This is the first week every score in the prize contender places has reached above 0.6!🔥 ML is a hype and Space Coders have held the top two spots for two weeks in a row!👀 Think you can beat them? Link in bio to join the Ariel Data Challenge!

Decode Exoplanet Atmospheres Using AI: Ariel Data Challenge 2024 Awaits! Ariel is calling scientists and AI enthusiasts to help tackle one of astronomy’s most complex and important data analysis problems – prize pool of $50,000 USD! More info on the Ariel Space Mission website!