A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, reflects on what he says was a turning point for him.Â
With a £10 million grant awarded by the , the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring the nature and extent of life in the Universe.
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System.
Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.
̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is creating a new research initiative, bringing together physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and earth scientists to answer fundamental questions on the origin and nature of life in the Universe.
For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere on a rocky planet around a distant star. ̽»¨Ö±²¥planet, GJ 1132 b, has a similar density, size, and age to Earth.
Scientists have suggested a new explanation for the abundance in intermediate-mass exoplanets – a long-standing puzzle in astronomy.
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, has discovered a new class of planet, an ‘ultrahot Neptune’, orbiting the nearby star LTT 9779.
̽»¨Ö±²¥rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable ‘Goldilocks zone’ in a distant solar system.
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