The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable ‘Goldilocks zone’ in a distant solar system.
Professor Andrew Fabian from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy has been awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, one of the world's most...
One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String...
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets...
Dr Francesca Chadha-Day is a theoretical physicist, a research fellow at Peterhouse, and a science comedian. Here, she tells us about her lifelong...
Shagita Gounden is a systems engineer working on the world’s largest radio telescope, an Executive MBA candidate at Cambridge Judge Business School...
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic...
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet...
Amy Rankine is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Astronomy and a member of Clare Hall. Here, she tells us about being the first in her family to go...
“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Queloz 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...
An international group of astronomers has identified a rogue planet orbiting its star in the so-called Neptunian Desert.
