While the world reflects on the first flight to the moon and our future on Mars, Dr Dimitri Veras and James Blake from Warwick's astrophysics department think asteroids – the so-called “minor planets” – deserve recognition. Here’s why.

Dr Dimitri Veras and James Blake of the Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability make the case for space travel to asteroids in this article for The Conversation.

James Blake, a postgraduate student in the Warwick Astronomy & Astrophysics Group, gives an overview of his summer project researching the topic of panspermia and applying the theory to the exciting TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

A new study, involving CEH member Dimitri Veras, examines the implications fo newly discovered solar system interloper 'Oumuamua for hypotheses of planetary dynamics.

This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 3, p.3031-3038

CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras

CEH member Dimitri Veras was part of a team investigating the possibility that 'Oumuamua might have been part of a comet.

This work was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 856, Number 1

Open access link: arXiv

CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras