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An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier.

Dr Boon Kok Tan is a senior researcher in astrophysics of the Department of Physics. His ERC research project aims to advance ultra-sensitive instrumentation for microwave, millimetre (mm), sub-mm, and terahertz (THz) frequencies.

A global team of astronomers and machine learning researchers today announced the release of the Multimodal Universe – a groundbreaking 100 terabyte dataset.

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The Department of Physics welcomed Professor Peter Coles from Maynooth University to its inaugural Pride Lecture.

Dr Heloise Stevance, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship 2024.

Breakthrough Listen’s Dr Brian C Lacki, a theoretical astronomer with the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, has recently published two papers that look at the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in a new light.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate – slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to date.

The discovery of the most distant galaxy yet seen was announced today by an international team, with Oxford astronomers playing a key role

Einstein has been proved correct with a key prediction about black holes, an international team led by researchers from the Department of Physics at Oxford.

Dr Andrew Siemion has been awarded the SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Award for his exceptional and pioneering contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and radio astronomy and his leadership in the field.

Professor Stephen Smartt, Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Research Professorship.