exoplanets

A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has used data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which...

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for...

What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019...

With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust , the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.

The University of Cambridge is creating a new research initiative, bringing together physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and earth...