A huge UK built titanium chamber designed to keep its contents at a cool -100C and weighing as much as an SUV has been shipped to the United States, where it will soon become part of a next-generation dark matter detector to hunt for the long-theorised elusive dark matter particle called a WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle).

Innovative cloud profiling radar and next generation infrared calibration sources are two exciting new projects being led by STFC’s RAL Space and which are to receive funding of over £1m from the UK Space Agency.

The report and accounts outlines a year of significant scientific and technological achievement.

An international team of scientists, including a number from the UK supported by STFC, has found the first evidence of a source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, ghostly subatomic particles that can travel unhindered for billions of light years from the most extreme environments in the universe to Earth.

New research by a team at the UK's ISIS neutron and muon research facility has revealed how fundamental components of the over six hundred year old Milan Cathedral were constructed.

UK industry will design a future Mars rover and benefit from a new commercial model for space exploration, Science Minister Sam Gyimah announced today on a visit, along with ESA astronaut Tim Peake, to the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire.

Seven student teams consisting of over 60 participants from across the UK reached the final stage of the Lunar Rover Competition, which saw them design, construct and test a lunar rover over a period of 9 months before testing them in the technical facilities at RAL Space.

A successful business incubation programme for space tech start-ups is to be rolled out nationally, to encourage the growth of new space clusters in the North West and Scotland and strengthen local economies.