The University of Liverpool collaborates with global partners and international space agencies to deliver projects that will help discover new ways to protect our planet and the universe we live in, as well as finding solutions to challenges we face across the world.

Space engineering

In this video, Professor Simon Maskell, Dr Stefania Soldini and Dr Kai Hoettges explain how their space engineering research is creating pioneering solutions for a better world.

European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer

Muscles, ageing and microgravity

Discover our experiments aboard the International Space Station helping us understand what happens to human muscles as we age.
Infographic showing the effect of DART's impact on the orbit of Dimorphos. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

NASA’s DART experiment

A University engineer was part of the world’s first full-scale planetary defence test to protect Earth against deadly asteroids.
Space surveillance Earth featuring a series of connected points via satellite

Space surveillance

Supporting the UK Ministry of Defence and the European Space Agency in space surveillance to map debris orbiting earth.

What might ESA’s Hera spacecraft find at the Didymos binary asteroid system DART and ASI’s LICIACube at Didymos System

Hera mission

What might the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft find at the Didymos binary asteroid system?

Dr Matt Taylor from the Rosetta Mission

Alumni stories: Dr Matt Taylor

Rosetta Mission Project Scientist and University of Liverpool alumnus, Dr Matt Taylor, talks cosmos, computers and The Cambridge.
Alumnus Colin Bennett infront of VSS Unity

Alumni stories: Aboard the VSS Unity

Alumnus Colin Bennett reflects on how his studies at Liverpool led him to take the journey of a lifetime aboard the Virgin Galactic spaceflight.