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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

Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics are proposing a new way to observe tightly bound supermassive black hole binaries.

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.

Professor Chris Lintott comments in light of research funding for astronomy and physics research being cut by almost a third.

Dr Heloise Stevance discusses the ethics of delegating scientific decision making to our computers.

The Oxford Sparks podcast chats with Dr Carly Howett, Associate Professor of Space Instrumentation, on why she thinks one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, could be a prime candidate for life.

Using the new WEAVE instrument developed by Oxford physicists, an international team has discovered bar-shaped cloud of ionised iron at the heart of the Ring Nebula.

Professor Andrew Bunker has been awarded the Herschel Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. The medal is awarded for investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics.

Professor Suzanne Aigrain has been awarded the George Darwin Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical Society.

Dr Deaglan Bartlett has been awarded the Early Career Award (A) by the Royal Astronomical Society recognising early achievement in astronomy.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have joined forces with an international consortium in the delivery of a powerful new astronomical instrument, SOXS (Son of X-Shooter), which has now achieved “first light” at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament 140 million light years away.