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A new international study has strengthened evidence that the expansion of the universe is still accelerating, addressing recent claims that had called one of modern cosmology's most important discoveries into question.

Turner Prize-winning artist Keith Tyson has donated £250,000 to fund the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy.

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Professor Katherine Blundell launches Xhosa-language webapp STEP into the Cosmos to introduce curious minds to the foundations of astrophysics.

Dr Babak Abi, Dr Farrukh Azfar and Dr Sam Henry have all been recognised for their work reporting the results from the measurement campaigns at Fermilab.

Professor Maria Vincenzi received a New Horizons in Physics Prize at this year's Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Los Angeles, in recognition of her work building and analysing some of the largest supernova datasets in modern cosmology.

New research from Curtin University and the University of Oxford has used a radio telescope that spans the Earth to snap images that measure the immense power of jets from black holes.

The University of Oxford is a founding partner in an international consortium that will build the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) in Namibia.

An international team of astronomers have used data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) to make the largest, most accurate 3D map yet of the light emitted by excited hydrogen in the early universe.

As the Vera C Rubin Observatory issues its first live alerts of changes detected in the night sky, a UK innovation, Lasair, is allowing us to observe millions of astronomical events as they unfold.

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen have published new results from one of the most sensitive radio searches ever conducted for pulsars in the dynamically complex central region of the Milky Way Galaxy

A recent study has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford.