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Manchester scientists studying Solar System materials in the lab.
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Our latest blog post includes photos and reflections from our visit to Frankfurt for #MetSoc2026
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Read all about it ⬇️
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Read all about it ⬇️
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88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
In August, a group of us went to Frankfurt for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, hosted by Goethe University. We enjoyed meeting colleagues old and new from around the world, cel…
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September 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Our latest blog post includes photos and reflections from our visit to Frankfurt for #MetSoc2026
☄️🔭🪐
Read all about it ⬇️
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☄️🔭🪐
Read all about it ⬇️
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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.
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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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August 5, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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.
🌎➡️🌕
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🌎➡️🌕
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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:
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Our latest blog post summarises some of the recently published new work:
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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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July 28, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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...
Our latest blog post summarises some of the recently published new work:
earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/l...
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.
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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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July 24, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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.
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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.
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July 14, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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.
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PhD student Chloe is working at @westernu.ca in Canada this summer, tracking fireballs ☄️. Read about her adventures in her new blog post.
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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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July 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
PhD student Chloe is working at @westernu.ca in Canada this summer, tracking fireballs ☄️. Read about her adventures in her new blog post.
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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
🌕 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
June 16, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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
🌕 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
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#artemis #Moon
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Explore NASA Johnson’s 63,110 photos on Flickr!
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April 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
There are some amazing photos from Artemis II on the NASA Johnson Flickr account 🌕
#artemis #Moon
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#artemis #Moon
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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.
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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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April 1, 2026 at 12:50 PM
The countdown is on! #Artemis II is scheduled to launch later today, the first crewed mission to the #Moon in over 50 years.
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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.
March 31, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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
Follow Flo on Instagram at @flo_wilkyway
March 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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
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 🌝
February 19, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
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.
July 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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.
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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
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#ChemicalBiology #SyntheticChemistry
Research Associate in Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical Biology:Oxford Road
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July 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#ChemicalBiology #SyntheticChemistry
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/
July 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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.
July 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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’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
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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’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 😞
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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
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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
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
A day of free, hands-on, interactive activities for all the family.
All the info you need to know is at universallymanchester.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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
A day of free, hands-on, interactive activities for all the family.
All the info you need to know is at 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
📆 Saturday 14th June
🕙 11 am to 4:30 pm
🎟️ Free entry
📍The University of Manchester, Oxford Road
@socialresponuom.bsky.social
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
📍@uniofmanchester.bsky.social Oxford Road Campus
📅 Saturday 14 June
🔗 universallymanchester.com
#universallymanchesterfestival
June 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
📆 Saturday 14th June
🕙 11 am to 4:30 pm
🎟️ Free entry
📍The University of Manchester, Oxford Road
@socialresponuom.bsky.social
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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
📍Oxford Road campus, UoM
🕚11am – 4:30pm
universallymanchester.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
📍Oxford Road campus, UoM
🕚11am – 4:30pm
universallymanchester.com
Check out this new paper published by two members of our group!
⚒️ Article: Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater
@earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@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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June 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Check out this new paper published by two members of our group!
Reposted by Earth and Solar System
⚒️ Article: Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater
@earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@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...
www.nature.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater
@earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@earthsolarsystem.bsky.social @whoi.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...