A brand new telescope instrument, designed and built by an international team involving Warwick scientists, will provide precise measurements of the universe's expansion rate and capture images of galaxies up to 11 billion light years away.

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.