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New cosmic map supports Einstein’s prediction about gravity

Albert Einstein’s transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.
The dome of a telescope on top of a hill with a starry sky behind it.

Supercomputer simulations offer new explanation for the formation of Mars’ moons

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars’ moons may have been formed from destroyed asteroid fragments.
Graphic showing asteroid fragments orbiting Mars t

New model could calculate probability of intelligent life in our Universe and beyond

A team of astrophysicists, led by our Institute for Computational Cosmology, have developed a new model that could estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge in our Universe and beyond.
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system

The 2024 Rochester Lecture will be delivered by Prof Anne L'Huillier

Anne L'Huillier is a Swedish/French researcher in attosecond science at Lund University in Sweden. During the first part of her career, she worked at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, in Saclay, France, first as a PhD student until 1986, then as a permanent researcher until 1995. She was postdoc at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg. Sweden in 1986, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA in 1988, before moving to Lund in 1995.
Photo of Anne L'Hullier stood beneath a tree in autumn colours

Durham University to host the National Astronomy Meeting 2025

Leading scientists from the UK and around world will meet at Durham University next summer to present the latest in cutting-edge space research.
The Ogden Centre at Durham University with a projection of the solar system projected onto its outer walls.

A new generation of telescopes will probe the ‘unknown unknowns’ that could transform our knowledge of the universe

Professor Richard Massey, from our Department of Physics, explores the potential of a new generation of telescopes.
Artistic impression of a telescope in space

Euclid reveals first images of its great map of the Universe

An international team of scientists, including those from our Department of Physics, are involved in a major space mission that has released five unprecedented new images of the Universe.
One of the first images from space from the Euclid mission

Winners of 2024 Physics Award for Excellence Announced

Congratulations to the winners of The 2024 Physics Award for Excellence this year’s winners are -
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Strengthening global research partnerships through prestigious Fellowship

We’re strengthening relationships with researchers in India thanks to the awarding of a prestigious Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to our Physics Professor Adekunle Adeyeye.
Professor Adeyeye standing outside in a blazer and shirt

Our Physics department plays key role in unveiling the universe’s secrets

Our top-rated Physics department has made significant contributions to an innovative international project that's shedding new light on the mysteries of our universe.
PAU Survey catalogue

Durham joins cutting-edge astronomical project BlackGEM

We have become part of an incredible space project called BlackGEM.
BlackGEM project signing ceremony

New image shows galaxies are bigger than we thought

We’re part of an international team of astronomers who have been able to take a photograph of the halo of gas around a galaxy for the first time.
A spiral galaxy at the centre of the picture surrounded by purple and blue gas, against a starry backdrop
Cosmic Ray Cosmo Simulation

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