Looking up
08 October 2019When Professor Didier Queloz spotted a light emitting from a star many light years away from the Earth, he thought it signalled the end of his PhD.
Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet
08 October 2019Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun.
Women in STEM: Verity Allan
29 August 2019Verity Allan is a graduate of Cambridge, Oxford, and The Open University. She is a PhD candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory and works as a project manager and programmer on the software for the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope.
‘Forbidden’ planet found wandering ‘Neptunian Desert’
29 May 2019An international group of astronomers has identified a rogue planet orbiting its star in the so-called Neptunian Desert.
Design work on ‘brain’ of world’s largest radio telescope completed
09 May 2019An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope. When complete, the SKA will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky much faster than any system currently in existence.
Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth
01 August 2018Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist.
Taming the multiverse: Stephen Hawking’s final theory about the big bang
02 May 2018Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics.
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
25 April 2018The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy.
A force to be reckoned with
27 November 2017Gravity is one of the universe's great mysteries. We decided to find out why.
Think you know what gravity is? Think again. New research is revealing how little we know about this most mysterious of forces.
Using gravitational waves to catch runaway black holes
30 June 2016Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to be kicked out of their host galaxies? Cambridge researchers have developed a method for detecting elusive ‘black hole kicks.’
