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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!

An international team of scientists including astronomers from the University of Oxford have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the universe.

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

Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery.

Department of Physics alumnus Kris Kaczmarek, Head of Product at ORCA Computing, has been named in the Forbes Under 30 Europe 2021 list. Now in its sixth year, the list identifies young innovators – visionaries – on the verge of making it big.

Dr Suhas Mahesh is one of 28 early-career scientists awarded a Schmidt Science Fellowship joining a global lifelong community of 84 fellows working at the intersection of disciplines to advance science for the public benefit.

Five minutes with Seophine Stanislaus, graduate student in Particle Physics

Researchers at the Department of Physics have today published a paper reviewing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for understanding "extreme physics" – the physics of matter at extremely high temperatures and densities.