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Through a series of interactive, carefully designed events, the access and outreach team reached almost 1,000 young people and some 900 members of the public in March.

Astrophysicists, in collaboration with the Oxford University Space and Astronomy Society, organised an eclipse viewing event outside the Said Business School in Oxford on Saturday 29 March

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was one of the first women to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society 80 years ago. Emeritus Professor Mike Glazer was one of her last PhD students; here, he reflects on his time with her and her remarkable legacy.

New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped the evolution of the Universe.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Bill Hayes; he passed away peacefully on 16 March aged 94.

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes are due to two stars coming together – rather than emissions from a single star.

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

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.

A team of international researchers including Dr Jake Taylor from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to explore the exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare ‘ultra-hot Neptune’.

Three research supervisors from the Department of Physics have been recognised in this year’s MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision: Dr Mustafa Bakr, Professor Philip Burrows and Professor Alex Schekochihin

Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications.

Professor Stephen Smartt, Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, comments on the latest talk of an asteroid headed for impact…