Have you ever wondered what it really takes to be an astronaut and what it's like to go into space? Well now's your chance with former NASA astronaut Steve…

A meeting of the global Kavli Astrophysics community: Building synergies for the future of astrophysics

A meeting of the global Kavli Astrophysics community: Building synergies for the future of astrophysics

To attend the public talk, please book your place here. You can find the poster for the public talk here.

To attend the public talk, please book your place here. You can find the poster for the public talk here.

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which has started capturing data from a mountaintop in Ch...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began capturing data last night from a mountaintop ...

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began capturing data last night from a mountaintop ...

IoA Professor Vasily Belokurov has been jointly awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with Amina Helmi from the University of Groningen and Rodrigo Ibata from the University of Strasbourg “for ...

Researchers have developed a technique to analyse how black holes ‘ring’ when they collide and merge: one of the universe’s most dramatic events.

If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear tha...

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.

If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear tha...

Astronomers are gathering footage for the first video of a black hole, sunlight can convert plastics into vinegar, giant ancient kangaroos could hop, monogamy is a key in termite societies and the "p...

Astronomers are gathering footage for the first video of a black hole, sunlight can convert plastics into vinegar, giant ancient kangaroos could hop, monogamy is a key in termite societies and the "p...

In brief Scientists -- including IoA astronomer Dr Nic Walton -- used the European Space Agency's Cheops satellite to discover that the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 challenges current pla...

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions remain

Scientists using data from the James Webb Space Telescope have made one of the most detailed high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced. It shows how

Scientists using data from the James Webb Space Telescope have made one of the most detailed high-resolution maps of dark matter ever produced. It shows how

Scientists at the Dark Energy Survey have published their most detailed explanation yet of how the universe has expanded over the last six billion years,

Scientists at the Dark Energy Survey have published their most detailed explanation yet of how the universe has expanded over the last six billion years,

New astronomical survey captures previously unknown growing pains in the lives of planets A team of astronomers (including Professor Mark Wyatt from the IoA) have, for the first time, captured a detai...

New astronomical survey captures previously unknown growing pains in the lives of planets A team of astronomers (including Professor Mark Wyatt from the IoA) have, for the first time, captured a detai...

In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the bright ...

In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the bright ...

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Black hole expert follows in footsteps of Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Fred Hoyle, and Lord Martin Rees in one of world's oldest named professorships.

The University of Cambridge – through the Cavendish Laboratory, the Institute of Astronomy, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology – has played a central role in the development of MOONS, the UK’s most...

Black hole expert follows in footsteps of Sir Arthur Eddington, Sir Fred Hoyle, and Lord Martin Rees in one of world's oldest named professorships.

Professor Sera Markoff has been appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.