Artist impression of the Euclid mission in space. The spacecraft is white and gold and consists of three main elements: a flat sunshield, a large cylinder where the light from space will enter, and a 'boxy' bottom containing the instruments.

Euclid

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid flagship Dark Energy Satellite Mission launched from Cape Canaveral on 1 July 2023; Oxford's Department of Physics plays a key role in the lensing data analysis and has been involved since its inception.
Visual appearance of hot Jupiter atmospheres with different temperatures or cloud types as calculated by the SPARC/MITgcm atmospheric circulation model.

Exoplanet atmospheres

Comparing models and observations to understand exoplanet atmospheres.
Artist impression of an exoplanet and its host star

Exoplanets and Stellar Physics

Detecting, characterising and modelling exoplanets and their host stars
Panorama of CBASS-South

Experimental radio cosmology

Development and science exploitation of new techniques and instruments at cm and radio wavelengths.
The lasers producing artificial guide stars of the Extremely Large Telescope

Extremely Large Telescope

Information on the Oxford involvement in the Extremely Large Telescope Project
Theory

Frontiers of quantum physics

Our group researches into applying quantum physics beyond the microscopic domain
H.E.S.S.

Gamma-ray astronomy

Gamma-ray astronomy
Group photo

Gene machines

Studies of the mechanisms and machines of gene expression using single-molecule biophysical methods and biochemistry.
Jets and vortices

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

We study and research fluid-dynamical phenomena and processes that occur in geophysical and astrophysical systems, such as planetary atmospheres and oceans, stars, accretion disks and interstellar gas clouds.