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Hiranya Peiris holds the Professorship of Astronomy (1909) at Cambridge, the first woman to do so in the 115-year history of this prestigious chair...

Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other...

A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers.

A team of Cambridge scientists are working to help identify the mysterious and invisible material believed to make up 85 per cent of all the matter...

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy...

A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...

A European mission to explore how gravity, dark energy and dark matter shaped the evolution of the Universe soared into space from Cape Canaveral on...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? ̽»¨Ö±²¥James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership...