astronomy

A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from...

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

Cambridge academics have been honoured for their outstanding contribution to astronomy by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles...

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at The Nanoscience Centre, University of...

A Cambridge astronomer’s identification of the remnant of the most recent supernova in the Milky Way is set to fill in major gaps in our knowledge of...

Cosmic defects and adolescent galaxies – two research projects in Cambridge are bringing us closer to understanding the cosmos.

A New Cambridge University star catalogue is the “most accurate ever”.