An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has made the most detailed image of the ring of dusty...
The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being...
The discovery of two massive holes punched through a stream of stars could help answer questions about the nature of dark matter, the mysterious...
An international exoplanet ‘think tank’ is meeting this week in Cambridge to deliberate on the ten most important questions that humanity could...
A young star over 30 times more massive than the Sun could help us understand how the most extreme stars in the Universe are born.
Two Earth-sized exoplanets have become the first rocky worlds to have their atmospheres studied using the Hubble Space Telescope.
With its very first – and last – observation, the Hitomi x-ray observatory has discovered that the gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies is much...
Black holes are the most powerful gravitational force in the Universe. So what could cause them to be kicked out of their host galaxies? Cambridge...
An international team of astronomers have detected glowing oxygen in a distant galaxy seen just 700 million years after the Big Bang. This is the...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an opportunity to study what our solar system was...
Three Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a dim and cool star, and may be the best place to search for life beyond the Solar System.
Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the intricacies of reusable spacecraft.
