The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) have highlighted the global impact of Cambridge’s research in the field of Physics and Astronomy. 99% of Cambridge’s overall submissions ...

Spencer Hurt is one of 16 students to win a 2022-23 Churchill Scholarship, which supports a year of graduate study at Cambridge University Spencer Hurt, a University of Colorado Boulder student, is ...

Donald Lynden-Bell, a British theoretical astrophysicist who pioneered research into cosmic quirks like quasars and black holes and with colleagues contradicted the prevailing premise that the ...

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would ...

It was a familiar scene for anyone who owns a telescope: a living room with boxes, plastic wrap, and Styrofoam strewn everywhere. Perched atop its tripod, a CPC Deluxe 1100HD telescope waited ...

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 universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

PROF. F. J. M. STRATTON retires from the chair of astrophysics at Cambridge on September 30. Thus will end an official connexion with the Solar Physics Observatory which dates back to 1909. In that ...

THE appointment of Sir Arthur Eddington by His Majesty the King to the Order of Merit will be warmly acclaimed by scientific workers in every corner of the globe as a fitting reward for a series of ...