The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) has completed a 24-day programme of work between Huddersfield and Leeds in West Yorkshire.
NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future
Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base. NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge put those traits on full display, as college student engineers from across the country gathered at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center […]
West Midlands Railway and Susan Vickers Foundation launch free rail travel for care-experienced people
Dozens of care-experienced people across the West Midlands are set to enjoy free train travel thanks to a new partnership between West Midlands Railway (WMR) and the Susan Vickers Foundation. The initiative will award complimentary rail passes to 40 members of the Foundation, a Wolverhampton-based charity which supports care-experienced people and care-leavers. Each pass provides […]
Rail contractor hosts careers event for young people in West of Scotland
National rail contractor, QTS Group, hosted its annual ‘The Future of Rail’ event at its headquarters in South Lanarkshire last week. The event, which took place on 20 and 21 May, welcomed several of QTS Group’s partners, including Network Rail, to promote the rail industry’s ability to offer flourishing careers for young people. Now in its […]
Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in diameter and some 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy’s low surface brightness makes it appear as a faint, starry swarm behind brighter foreground stars that are easily recognized by their diffraction spikes. Numerous red, […]