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Satellite image showing the surface of the blue planet Earth with ocean, clouds and continents in open space on the starry sky.

Scientists find evidence that overturns theories of the origin of water on Earth

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Researchers and volunteers unite to uncover spectacular space discoveries in new satellite data

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Artistic image of a planet orbiting a distant star. Two smaller planets are visible in the distance, orbiting the same star. Distant stars are seen as surrounding pinpricks of light in the Universe.

Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the habitable zone

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Professor James Binney awarded Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal

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Artist’s rendering of a black hole emitting a jet of hot gas known as plasma. The black hole appears as a luminous spiral-shaped disc with a black sphere at the centre.

Researchers generate black hole ‘plasma fireballs’ on Earth

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Artistic image showing matter being dragged from a star to form a spiral shaped rotating mass around a black hole.

First proof that “plunging regions” exist around black holes in space

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Spiral galaxy 1433. The spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange. Thin dust lanes connect from the core, through the bar to the spiral arms. The galaxy’s arms begin at the end of the bar and appear to rotate counterclockwise.

Stunning spiral galaxies seen in new James Webb Space Telescope images

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The Radcliffe Camera, part of the University of Oxford. It is a circular building with columns and a dome. Credit: Cybjorg, Getty Images.

Oxford researchers honoured in 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

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The Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal. It is round, shiny and golden and has the outline of a man’s head viewed from the side.

Professor Mike Kendall wins Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal

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The planet Uranus, seen as a greenish-blue sphere, is suspended in outer space against an illuminated line of stars to represent the Milky Way Galaxy.

New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like

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