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Dr Katherine Shirley has won the MPLS Public Engagement with Research Impact Award for her planetary research work.

Brand new intel on mysterious planet GJ 1214 b has been gleaned thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews. Here, we meet postdoc Jake Taylor.

University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which fell to Earth last year.

Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, near-surface seismic waves have been recorded for the first time on a planet other than Earth.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal 2022 for outstanding contributions in the field of physics.

As the European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor mission moves from design phase to implementation, Professor Neil Bowles gives an insight into what it’s like to be part of an ambitious, global initiative.

A new European Space Agency science mission, proposed by the UK, to 3D-map a comet for the first time has reached a major milestone, moving from the design phase to implementation.

New research led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the Department of Physics at Oxford suggests that a layer of haze that exists on both planets is behind the different hues of blue.