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Professor Patrick Irwin has been awarded the David Bates Medal by the European Geosciences Union for 2026.

On 6 November, the Department of Physics hosted its annual International Observe the Moon Night, inviting members of the public to explore our nearest celestial neighbour through telescopes, experiments, and conversations with planetary scientists.

New findings from NASA’s Cassini mission show that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons and a top contender for extra-terrestrial life, is losing heat from both poles – indicating that it has the long-term stability required for life to develop.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced its preliminary selection of payloads for its future Mars exploration mission and the results include an Oxford Physics-led instrument named BEBOP.

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

A new fully funded DPhil studentship has been created at the University of Oxford thanks to support from AlbaCore Capital Group; the award will support the advancement of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, climate and the environment

When lives or properties are destroyed by floods, storms, or wildfires, can and should anybody be held to account?

Professor Hannah Christensen has been awarded the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) Early Career Scientist Medal for 2025.

The first images from the extraordinary NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory have been made public today.

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

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.

Dr Carly Howett speaks to Oxford Sparks in their first podcast of 2025