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The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on 25 December 2021

Commentary: Professor Bunker on the James Webb Space Telescope

Professor Andy Bunker gives a potted history of the JWST and shares his excitement for a revolution in observational astronomy

This illustration shows what exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like, based on current understanding of the planet.

JWST detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere

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.

Student presents her project at poster presentation

Local Y12 students get a taste for physics

Year 12 Physics Summer School provides valuable week-long placements for school students with our researcher and technical staff

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert

Professor Pierrehumbert awarded Rumford Medal

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

Clockwise from left: Ben Jaderberg, Abhishek Agarwal and Tom O'Leary

Oxford team wins IBM quantum prize

Oxford team announced as winners of the second annual IBM Quantum Awards: Open Science Prize

Meet...Thomas Hird

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

Andrew Williams

Meet...Andrew Williams

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

Professor Henry Snaith

Professor Snaith awarded Louisville’s renewable energy prize

Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy.

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Oxford physicists to benefit from £6m UKRI programme to spur the UK’s quantum leap

A multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford’s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in £6 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.

a photo of a group of young Black students standing in front of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford

EMPower Oxford opens opportunities

New collaborative access programme for Black students a great success

Fibre positioner

Supercharged telescope to investigate Milky Way

The latest addition to the William Herschel Telescope will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour revealing how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.

Connect physics workshop

Physics on tour!

Researchers from the department took part in the first ever physics summer roadshow for local schools reaching over 1,000 young people