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A radio telescope pointing upwards is silhouetted against the Milky Way, seen as a vast array of stars in a twilight sky.

University of Oxford partners with Breakthrough Prize Foundation in search for life beyond Earth

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A sunrise as seen from Mars. The red surface of the planet is illuminated by the disc of the sun appearing on the horizon. The background is black outer space with stars.

New study reveals source of largest ever Mars quake

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A spacecraft shaped like a box with two arms in orbit above the Moon's surface.

Oxford University-built instrument ready to map water on the Moon

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A satellite monitors a developing typhoon on Earth (seen as a spiral shaped cloud). Image credit: Shutterstock/ NASA

Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space for the first time

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Artistic depiction of the James Webb Space Telescope in outer space. The triangular structure is topped by a large concave circular reflecting mirror.

James Webb Space Telescope detects interstellar dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

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An artist’s impression of an X-ray binary star system. This shows the normal star in yellow/red, the disc of rotating matter, the neutron star sitting in its centre, and the ‘radio jet’ shooting out. Credit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Major collaboration reveals new insights on binary star systems

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The Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal. Image credit: Royal Astronomical Society.

Professor Tim Palmer wins Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal

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Artistic impression of the exoplanet WASP-39b. Image credit: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

New data from James Webb Space Telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

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A fragment of the Winchcombe Meteorite. Credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum, NHM.

New analysis of Winchcombe meteorite reveals a window into the early solar system

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First observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of planet’s crust. Kim et al., (2022) Science.

Two major meteorite impacts reveal new insights about the surface of Mars

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