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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid flagship Dark Energy Satellite Mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday 1 July 2023

A team at Oxford are leading an international consortium to develop the Extremely Large Telescope's first light spectroscopic facility instrument known as HARMONI.

Professor Chris Lintott has been appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy, one of the college’s ten professorships that are filled by leaders and pioneers in a range of artistic fields.

The discovery of a rare type of spinning white dwarf star in a binary star system – only the second one known – provides a new understanding into the role of magnetic fields in stellar evolution.

Department of Physics alumnus, Dr David Hosking, has been awarded another two prizes for his University of Oxford thesis, ‘The decay of MHD turbulence and the primordial origin of magnetic fields in cosmic voids’.

Dr Andrew Mummery from Oxford’s Department of Physics has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union and the Royal Astronomical Society for his thesis.

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

Three physicists from Oxford have contributed to a new book, 'The Language of Symmetry', out today, 16 May 2023.

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

Two papers published today in Nature Astronomy present the discovery of four of the most distant galaxies yet found.

Oxford astrophysicists have led a project in which the earliest stages of the Universe’s most powerful explosions are captured in detail for the first time.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have contributed to a major international study which has captured a rare and fascinating space phenomenon. The study has been published in Nature.