School of Physics & Astronomy news

“Super-cool” observatory to explore hidden universe

14 May 2018

SPICA mission will be considered by European Space Agency for its next medium-class space mission

Conference on "Colliding Stars and Black Holes" to launch new research institute

3 May 2018

The School of Physics and Astronomy will be holding a two day conference on "Colliding Stars and Black Holes" to launch its new Gravity Exploration research institute

Research casts doubt on theories of star formation

30 April 2018

New findings reveal surprising distribution of star-forming cores outside of our galaxy

‘Pint of Science’ returns to Cardiff pubs

11 April 2018

Academics will once again bring science to the masses as part of world’s largest festival of public science talks

Absent phosphorus questions possible life on other planets

5 April 2018

New research finds little evidence of one of Earth’s most valuable elements in distant part of the Universe

Green light for exoplanet mission

20 March 2018

European Space Agency announces details of international science mission, including scientists from Cardiff University, to explore how exoplanets – planets around distant stars – form and evolve

A coded message for the Queen

1 February 2018

Wendy Sadler collects her MBE in a very special dress designed with sound waves.

Science comic book Kickstarter launches in Cardiff

18 January 2018

Campaign created to share science comic book trilogy with schoolchildren around the world

Cardiff physicists celebrate Nobel success

11 January 2018

Cardiff University’s LIGO members attend Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm to celebrate with this year’s laureates

A century of galaxy discrimination revealed by giant European astronomy survey

21 December 2017

View of the Universe provided by traditional optical telescopes is biased, according to new research.

Wales gets its first network of cosmic ray detectors

30 November 2017

Major international project will give schoolchildren the chance to explore some of the most important questions in astrophysics

0.4m telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory

Public to join the hunt for Einstein's gravitational waves

24 November 2017

New citizen science project will allow public to search the sky for signs of violent cosmic events that lead to the production of space-time ripples

Cardiff named University of the Year

3 November 2017

Clean sweep for nominations at the Business and Education Partnerships Awards.

New centre to train next generation of data scientists

27 October 2017

Cardiff University awarded Centre for Doctoral Training to tackle growing issue of managing mountains of data from large-scale science projects

First detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

16 October 2017

Cardiff University scientists make critical contribution to landmark discovery

LIGO scientists celebrate Nobel Prize

3 October 2017

Cardiff University’s Gravitational Physics Group are celebrating the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.