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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.

Scientists from the University of Oxford are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system’s icy moons.

Dr Tim Lichtenberg has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Winton Award for Early Achievement in Geophysics for his work on understanding the growth and long-term evolution of rocky planets.

A team including astrophysicist Dr Mitchell Young from Oxford University has detected the fingerprints of atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of the hottest known exoplanet, KELT-9b.

Having followed in his footsteps at the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Halley Professor of Physics Raymond Pierrehumbert reflects on Syukuro Manabe’s Nobel Prize-winning work

Commentary: Professor Vivien Parmentier explains how the unprecedented measurement of both oxygen and carbon atoms in an exoplanet atmosphere provides clues to understanding how planetary systems form.

Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize.

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.

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.