The Vera C Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built...
Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the...
Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early Universe. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to...
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...
Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other...
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing...
A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.
A team of Cambridge scientists are working to help identify the mysterious and invisible material believed to make up 85 per cent of all the matter...
A team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to reveal, for the first time, what...
Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy...
A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...
For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.
