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An international collaboration led by the University of Oxford has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare 'super-puff' planets with densities lower than candy floss.

Two researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford have been awarded observing time on the James Webb Space Telescope to study exoplanet atmospheres and the origins of the heaviest elements in the Universe.

An international team of astronomers, led by Dr Aayush Saxena from the University of Oxford, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the birth of a massive galaxy.

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

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Dr Thomas Spieksma has been awarded the Instrument Centre for Danish Astrophysics (IDA) PhD Prize; the prize is awarded annually to the most scientifically outstanding PhD thesis defended at a Danish university within astronomy and astrophysics.

The most massive black holes in the Universe detected by the ripples they make in space time were not born directly from collapsing stars, according to a new study.

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

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.

Dr Pablo Bilbao has been awarded the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division’s PhD Research Award.

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