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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Hiranya Peiris

06 Mar 2025

Hiranya Peiris holds the Professorship of Astronomy (1909) at Cambridge, the first woman to do so in the 115-year history of this prestigious chair...

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The moon

Graphene heads to the moon

30 Nov 2022

Cambridge researchers are part of a European project testing graphene’s ability to protect spacecraft against the sticky, sharp dust on the moon’s...

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First spaceflight for Gates Cambridge Scholar

17 Dec 2021

On 10th November Kayla Barron blasted off into space on her first trip to the International Space Station where she is part of a six-month science...

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Cambridge researcher joins NASA science mission searching for signs of past life on Mars

18 Feb 2021

Professor Nicholas Tosca from the University of Cambridge is the only UK scientist selected by NASA to be part of the core science team for the Mars...

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Artist’s impression of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 from the surface of one of its planets

New exoplanet think tank will ask the big questions about extra-terrestrial worlds

05 Sep 2016

An international exoplanet ‘think tank’ is meeting this week in Cambridge to deliberate on the ten most important questions that humanity could...

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First atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets using Hubble telescope

20 Jul 2016

Two Earth-sized exoplanets have become the first rocky worlds to have their atmospheres studied using the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Local school takes classroom into space

13 Jan 2016

A primary school in Sawston spent the day learning all about space and one lucky 11-year old girl had the chance to try on a real space suit.

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