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Emeritus Professor Tony Bell has been awarded this year’s Yodh Prize for his theoretical contributions that led to a breakthrough in understanding the acceleration of cosmic rays by amplified magnetic fields.

A profile of leading climate scientist Professor Philip Stier

Professor JC Séamus Davis has discovered that an elusive state of quantum matter is in fact a ubiquitous and important property of nature – not a unique phenomenon in the cuprates

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.

The Department of Physics has been recognised in the University of Oxford’s annual Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Impact Awards: Ramy Aboushelbaya won the Early Career Impact Award while Peter Hatfield won the Public Engagement with Research award..

The Department of Physics has received a significant philanthropic donation from the Binks Trust, which will be used to enhance its solar energy research over the coming years.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that classical nova explosions are accompanied by the ejection of jets of oppositely-directed hot gas and plasma, and that this persists for years following the nova eruption.

British scientists will play a leading role in a new mission to study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, our neighbouring planet, helping determine whether it was once habitable – and why Earth became the only known planet that can sustain life.

Planet Hunters TESS, a citizen science project led by a team at the University of Oxford and hosted by the Zooniverse platform, has discovered a two-planet system around a nearby star.

Former Oxford physicist, Nathan Jurik, has been awarded this year’s European Physical Society’s Young Experimental Physicist Prize.

More than 170 visitors took a trip around the solar system - in Oxford University Parks!

Dr Antje Weisheimer has been awarded the Buchan Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society