The prevalence of atmospheres on rocky planets is one of the major questions in exoplanet astronomy, but there are currently no published unambiguous detections of atmospheres on any rocky exoplanets....

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Astrophysics DPhils (PhDs) can be observational, theoretical or in instrumentation and topics range from cosmology through to exoplanets, galaxies and transients, pulsars and high-energy astrophysics.