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Euclid, a satellite a million miles from Earth, has released the largest map of the sky of its kind ever produced from space.

Professor Suzanne Aigrain has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to co-lead an ambitious, far-reaching research project which aims to enable the discovery of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.

An early storm detection initiative from AfriClimate AI is to receive funding from the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science; research at the African community-driven institute is led by Dr Shruti Nath from the Department of Physics

New evidence from gas seeping above the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping.

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Climate modelling explained James Webb Space Telescope observations of TOI-561 b, a lava planet that appears to be wrapped in an atmosphere with reflective silicate clouds.

Physicists have found the first evidence of an extremely rare particle decay at CERN's Large Hadron Collider; the finding was made by the upgraded Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment in which Oxford plays a leading role.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have found a material that absorbs sunlight well and holds on to the energy it captures for longer, a combination that could help make solar power more efficient.

Emeritus Professor Subir Sarkar, who has been part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory collaboration since its inception, comments on the Nobel prize awarded to its Principal Investigator Francis Halzen.

Professor Michael Johnston has been given the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) Kenneth J Button Award 2027.

Teams from Oxford welcomed the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey during the extended shutdown to showcase plans for the future.

A spin-out from the University of Oxford is set to benefit from a share of £50 million of government funding, part of a wider goal to make the UK a world leader in quantum sensing by 2030.