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New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped the evolution of the Universe.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Bill Hayes; he passed away peacefully on 16 March aged 94.

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes are due to two stars coming together – rather than emissions from a single star.

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.

No bigger than a shoebox, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the Department of Physics, will blast off to the Moon as part of NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission on Wednesday 26 February.

A team of international researchers including Dr Jake Taylor from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to explore the exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare ‘ultra-hot Neptune’.

Three research supervisors from the Department of Physics have been recognised in this year’s MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision: Dr Mustafa Bakr, Professor Philip Burrows and Professor Alex Schekochihin

Oxford University’s brand new MSc in Quantum Technologies is an innovative interdisciplinary course that provides students with a technical overview of modern quantum technologies for computing, sensing and communications.

Professor Stephen Smartt, Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, comments on the latest talk of an asteroid headed for impact…

Researchers have unveiled an innovative experimental approach using an X ray free electron laser (XFEL) to probe for axions – elusive particles that may make up dark matter.

In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists at Oxford University Physics have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing.

Safety Officer Isabel Dziumak-Hooper completed her apprenticeship in health and safety in January 2025, 18 months after joining the Department of Physics straight from college.