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Currently vice-president, Professor Lesley Gray will take up the presidency of the Royal Meteorological Society for two years from October 2022

Dr Kevin Olsen, UKSA Aurora Fellow, is working on data analysis for the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter; here he comments on the latest finding from the TGO and what they mean for life on Mars.

A profile of leading climate scientist Professor Philip Stier

Scientists from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have monitored the variations of water vapour and semi-heavy water in the atmosphere of Mars using observations from the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

British scientists will play a leading role in a new mission to study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, our neighbouring planet, helping determine whether it was once habitable – and why Earth became the only known planet that can sustain life.

Dr Antje Weisheimer has been awarded the Buchan Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society

A new paper led by Dr Simon Proud at the Department of Physics, describes a unprecedentedly cold temperature measured atop a severe thunderstorm cloud in the Pacific by an Earth-orbiting satellite.

Sea salt embedded in the dusty surface of Mars and lofted into the planet’s atmosphere has led to the discovery of hydrogen chloride – the first time the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected a new gas.