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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.

An international team of scientists has published the largest pulsar survey to date.

New imagery from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument is revealing never-before-seen details into how young, newly forming stars influence the structure of the gas and dust of nearby galaxies, and therefore how they evolve over time.

On Saturday 21 January, nearly 1,000 curious visitors came to the Department of Physics to take a trip into the cosmos.

Five academics in the Department of Physics have been recognised in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division’s inaugural Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision.

The MeerKAT Team has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2023 Group Achievement Award for Astronomy.

In November 2021, a team of graduate students from Oxford teamed up with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to turn the ideas of secondary school children into real experiments for launch to the International Space Station. 

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named BlackHolistic, of 14 million Euro to a team of British, Dutch, Finnish and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black holes.