From fieldwork in New Mexico to the Moon - in our latest blog post, Katie writes about fieldwork here on Earth helps prepare for the DIMPLE experiment that will determine the age and composition of rock samples on the Moon. 🌎➡️🌕 earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/e...

Exploring the Moon on Earth – New Mexico fieldwork in support of the DIMPLE experiment

Image of the Ina volcanic deposit, with various mounds (dark areas) and moats (lighter areas). X denotes a potential mission landing site on the Mons Agnes mound.  Image is ~3.5 km wide. Image: LR…

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More than 50 years after the Apollo missions, scientists are still making major discoveries from the lunar samples collected by the Apollo astronauts 🌝 Our latest blog post summarises some of the recently published new work: earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/l...

Lunar Sample Analysis: The Next Generation – recent papers

More than 50 years after the Apollo missions, we are still making major scientific discoveries from the lunar samples returned to Earth. Recent advances in analytical techniques are allowing resear…

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Several members of the group were at the @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social in Montréal, Canada last week. Now they are back from their adventures and recovered from the jetlag, we’ve some photos to share. earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/g...

Goldschmidt Conference 2026

Several members of the group were at the Goldschmidt Conference in Montréal, Canada, last week. Now they are back from their adventures and recovered from the jetlag, we’ve some photos to sha…

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Several members of the group are presenting their work at the @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social in Montreal this week. We'll post more about their Canadian adventures soon, but in the meantime follow #Goldschmidt2026 to find out more. conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

PhD student Chloe is working at @westernu.ca in Canada this summer, tracking fireballs ☄️. Read about her adventures in her new blog post. earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/f...

Fireball fever: Tracking fireballs with the Global Meteor Network!

Hi, my name is Chloe and I am a 2nd year PhD student in the group. This summer, I am working with the Meteor Physics Group at Western University all the way over in Ontario, Canada, working on a pr…

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We had a great time at #bpsc2026 last week! 🌕 Six members of our group gave talks on all things lunar and meteoritical ☄️ Two of our newest PhD students presented posters 🥇 Dr Tom Barrett won the UKPF early career award and presented a keynote talk 🥇 Flo Wilkinson won a prize for best student poster

There are some amazing photos from Artemis II on the NASA Johnson Flickr account 🌕 #artemis #Moon www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

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Explore NASA Johnson’s 63,110 photos on Flickr!

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The countdown is on! #Artemis II is scheduled to launch later today, the first crewed mission to the #Moon in over 50 years. earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/a...

Artemis II: Return to the Moon!

At long last, after more than 50 years, this week humans will once again be orbiting around the Moon! With the upcoming NASA Artemis II  launch scheduled for April 1st, no not an April fool’s joke …

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Jodie is a new PhD students who joined us at the start of this academic year. Most of us consider Manchester to be north, but Jodie previously studied at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, so has moved a long way south! Her PhD focuses on trying to understand how meteorites are altered by heat and water.

A couple of new PhD students joined our group back in October. Now they've had a few months to settle in, it is time to introduce them to the world. First up is Flo, who studied Earth and Planetary Science as an undergraduate before starting her PhD. Follow Flo on Instagram at @flo_wilkyway

We had a great time at @sim-manchester.bsky.social on Tuesday! Huge congratulations to Khattab, Jacob & Mum, Heaton Family, Meteorite Masters and Jonesies who found all 12 of the meteorites in our Meteorite Hunt 🥇 And thanks to everyone who stopped to chat and have a go 🌝

We've got the scoreboard from our Meteorite Hunt at @uomscieng.bsky.social Fun Lab at @traffordcentre.bsky.social a couple of weekends ago (sorry for the delay). Team Stormtrooper were first to find all 12 meteorites, but were later joined at the top by Cataleia, Amirah, Shivansh & Banana Giraffe.

These are not the rocks you're looking for! We were at the Trafford Centre yesterday with @uomscieng.bsky.social for a Space themed Fun Lab, and encountered some unexpected visitors! Storm Troopers are quite good at finding meteorites and were first of the day to top the Meteorite Hunt leader board

Closing out MetSoc with the final talk of the entire conference is Manchester's Thomas Barrett. His work attempts to visualise core formation processes using heating experiments of meteorites and x-ray CT scanning to look at melted rocks in 3D.

Delighted to advertise a collaborative postdoc position available in the lab to develop new proximity labelling tools, funded by a BBSRC Transformative Research Technology grant: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #ChemicalBiology #SyntheticChemistry

Research Associate in Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology:Oxford Road

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Yesterday's poster session here Down Under at MetSoc in Perth Australia featured work from the Moon to Mars and back. Abstracts can be found online at metsoc2025.au/program/

This years annual Meteroitical Society Meeting kicked off yesterday in Perth Australia. Prof. Phil Bland started out with the Barringer Lecture "The Consolation of Science", discussing topics such as the history of modern science, why science is so precious, and what it feels like to do science.

This week many members of our group are at #Goldschmidt2025 We’re having a great time sharing our research, hearing other groups share there’s and making new connections! Still one more day to go - come and say hi! @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social

We had a great time at the @manchester.ac.uk #UniversallyManchesterFestival on Saturday, thanks to everyone who visited us 🌝 Congratulations to Cyberz who topped the Meteorite Hunt scoreboard with 9 points 🥇 I think Team A hit a new record low with -8 points 😞 @socialresponuom.bsky.social

The #UniversallyManchesterFestival is TOMORROW! A day of free, hands-on, interactive activities for all the family. All the info you need to know is at universallymanchester.com

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Wondering how to keep the kids entertained this weekend? 🎉The Universally Manchester Festival has you covered! This Saturday we’ll have loads of activities on campus to explore, learn, and play 🧠🎨🕹️ 📍 Uni of Manchester, Oxford Road campus 🕚 11am – 4:30pm universallymanchester.com

We'll be at the #UniversallyManchesterFestival on Saturday. Join teams from the University of Manchester to explore exciting, fun, hands-on activities for all the family. 📆 Saturday 14th June 🕙 11 am to 4:30 pm 🎟️ Free entry 📍The University of Manchester, Oxford Road @socialresponuom.bsky.social

Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester@socialresponuom.bsky.social · last yr.

Get your hands on pieces of space rock over 4 billion years old at our Universally Manchester Festival🌒 🪨 📍@uniofmanchester.bsky.social Oxford Road Campus 📅 Saturday 14 June 🔗 universallymanchester.com #universallymanchesterfestival

You’re invited to the Universally Manchester Festival, Saturday 14 June🎉. From poetry to physics, music to medicine and computing to creative writing, there’s loads to discover and do – with activities on offer for all ages. 📍Oxford Road campus, UoM 🕚11am – 4:30pm universallymanchester.com

Check out this new paper published by two members of our group!

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⚒️ Article: Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater @earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚒️ Article: Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater @earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater - Nature Geoscience

The sub-continental lithospheric mantle passively degasses volatiles to Earth’s surface, including from regions unaffected by volcanism, according to a study of helium and argon isotopes in young grou...

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We have collaborated with @glascifest.bsky.social to share our research and outreach activities! Check out our page here: www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien... #glascifest #scienceonthesofa

We had a great time at the #BritishScienceWeek Schools Fair in the Manchester Museum on Monday and Tuesday. It was fantastic to talk to so many interested and enthusiastic secondary school pupils ☄️🌝 #BSW25

We had an amazing time showing space rocks at the Get Curious Event at @sim-manchester.bsky.social last week. Our Meteorite Hunt activity was a great crowd-puller, congratulations to the winners E=HC2. Check out our Instagram for our favourite photos & videos: www.instagram.com/earthandsola...

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