From tsunamis to sheathbills: celebrating a successful season South
As the 2025/26 Antarctic science season comes to an end, we look back at our highlights and achievements.
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Read more of: From tsunamis to sheathbills: celebrating a successful season South
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Space Environment Impacts Expert Group (SEIEG)
Read more of: Space Environment Impacts Expert Group (SEIEG)SEIEG is an independent committee of experts that provide support and advice to the UK Met Office and government departments.
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Rocket launch discovers long-sought global electric field on Earth
Read more of: Rocket launch discovers long-sought global electric field on EarthAn international team of scientists, including a researcher from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has, for the first time, successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields.
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BAS shortlisted for NERC’s 2023 Impact Awards
Read more of: BAS shortlisted for NERC’s 2023 Impact AwardsThe shortlist has been announced for The Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Impact Awards 2023. Four BAS projects have made the shortlist and commended list, ranging from biodiversity and ecology to space weather.
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Scientists set out benchmarks for extreme space weather
Read more of: Scientists set out benchmarks for extreme space weatherExtreme space weather threatens vital satellites orbiting the Earth, including the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) which pass through the heart of the outer radiation belt. New research led by […]
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Geomagnetic storm sounds inspire new album
Read more of: Geomagnetic storm sounds inspire new albumA new album inspired by the sounds of radio waves produced by a geomagnetic storm has been released. St Swithin’s Day Storm is a collaboration with Steven Anderson, known as […]
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Radiation Belt Data Assimilation (Radbelt-DA)
Read more of: Radiation Belt Data Assimilation (Radbelt-DA)RADBELT-DA applies data assimilation techniques to improve radiation belt forecasts to protect satellites from space weather damage and service disruption.
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‘Sounds’ of the sun inspire an extraordinary new album
Read more of: ‘Sounds’ of the sun inspire an extraordinary new albumA new album transporting listeners on a journey to the Sun and inspired by ‘sounds’ captured in space and on the ground shows the magic created when science and the […]
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Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollution
Read more of: Climate change to increase lifetime of space pollutionSatellites face greater chances of collision with space debris as a result of reduced density in the upper atmosphere. Increasing levels of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere will result in […]
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BAS scientist awarded Gold Medal by Royal Astronomical Society
Read more of: BAS scientist awarded Gold Medal by Royal Astronomical SocietyThe Royal Astronomical Society has awarded the 2022 Gold Medal for Geophysics to Professor Richard B Horne for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the physics underlying space weather. […]
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Antarctica experiences rare total solar eclipse
Read more of: Antarctica experiences rare total solar eclipseA rare total solar eclipse in Antarctica this weekend (Saturday 4 December) is giving researchers a unique opportunity to learn more about how solar eclipses affect space weather. The next […]
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Mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras is solved
Read more of: Mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras is solvedThe 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, scientists have seen the entire mechanism at work – and it could be a […]
