Imperial physicists Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien show off their prototype kit for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission and explain why it won't be possible to send a manned mission to the sun just yet

Space mission scientists share their cosmic vision - Solar Orbiter

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Dr Dave Clements, Senior Lecturer in Imperial's Department of Physics, talks about how his twin passions for astronomical research and science fiction writing complement and interact with each other.

Author & physicist Dave Clements

Listen to Professor Fay Dowker talk Samuel Lickiss through the proofs of general relativity – from eclipses to ripples in spacetime.

How do we know general relativity is true?

Black holes are where we could experience some of the most extreme effects of general relativity. So what happens if you fall into one?

What happens if you fall into a black hole?

On 7 January 2014, the Sun's surface erupted with an unusually large explosion, called coronal mass ejection (CME), with NOAA releasing a significant false alarm geomagnetic storm at Earth. Credit: Dr Neel Savani / Imperial College London

Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 7 January 2014

How to construct a better narrative over what really goes on in the subatomic world. Inaugural lecture of Professor Terry Rudolph

Space mission scientists share their cosmic vision - Solar Orbiter

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