space

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...

The University of Cambridge is one of 21 organisations awarded a share of over £7 million in funding meant to put the UK at the forefront of the...

A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a star system...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has discovered a new class of planet, an ‘ultrahot...

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...

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...