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Graduate students at the cutting edge of physics were able to share their work earlier this year at the 2026 Graduate Condensed Matter Physics Conference.

Professor Hannah Christensen has been recognised with a Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Division Teaching Award 2026.

Of the eight initiatives recognised in this year’s Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Impact Awards, four came from the Department of Physics.

Both the Physics teaching laboratories team and the HARMONI team have been recognised with a Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences (MPLS) Award for Excellence in Lab and Workshop Support.

A planet that hid from astronomers for ten years has been found by a team including researchers from Oxford.

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After more than a decade of planning and preparing, the NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time officially began last night; the telescope in Chile will create a 'movie of the sky' over the next 10 years.

An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare 'super-puff' planets with densities lower than candy floss.

A team of four physics undergraduate students – three of whom from the University of Oxford and one from Imperial College London – came third in the international finals of PLANCKS.

Two researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have been awarded observing time on the James Webb Space Telescope to study exoplanet atmospheres and the origins of the heaviest elements in the Universe.

Researchers from the Department of Physics contribute to major advance in the search for dark matter and gravitational waves.

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has been ranked first in the UK for Physics & Astronomy in the Complete University Guide 2027.