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Cathie Clarke was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2023. Prof. Clarke studies astrophysical fluid dynamics, including accretion and protoplanetary discs and stellar winds. She was the first to demonstrate how protoplanetary disc formation around low-mass young stars is determined by their radiation field. In...

World-leading cosmologist Professor Hiranya Peiris has been appointed Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Professor Peiris's research covers a wide range of disciplines within astrophysics and cosmology, including the study of the cosmic microwave background, galaxy evolution and...

An international team of scientists (including Cambridge astronomers) have successfully mapped the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky Way, using telescopes that observe the sky in the microwave range. The new research is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The Collaboration has presented a...

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe An international team of astronomers, including scientists at the Universities of Cambridge, Hertfordshire and Oxford, has reported the discovery of the earliest galaxies ever confirmed in our Universe. Using data...