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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.

The University of Oxford has successfully renewed its membership of the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years.

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A new analysis led by Oxford University researchers has shown the devastating Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption in January 2022 created the tallest volcanic plume ever recorded.

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

Findings from two separate research papers analysing ship tracks indicate that air pollution has a larger effect on climate than previously thought.

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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.

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Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics have a new understanding of how the mysterious ‘absorbing aerosol’ can change the climate. The research, led by Andrew Williams and Professor Philip Stier, is published in today in Nature Climate Change.

A multi-institutional international team of researchers combined extensive satellite data with ground-level observations to show that the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was unique