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The UK will play a crucial role in a landmark mission to trace patterns in the light from space, looking back almost to the Big Bang, bringing us closer to understanding the nature of our Universe and how it began. The Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission (‘Light satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from...

Researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that it may be possible to detect and measure dark energy by studying Andromeda, our galactic next-door neighbour that is on a slow-motion collision course with the Milky Way. Using a series of simulations based on the best available estimates of the mass of both...

Two areas of KICC research stand to benefit from UKRI investment upgrading UK research infrastructure £72 million funding includes £6.8 million to scope a second-generation instrumentation suite for the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope An £8 million investment in the conceptual design of new...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is already providing new insights into this question. One of the largest programmes in Webb’s first...