Two Durham scientists whose work helps us to understand the Universe and our own planet are being recognised by one of the UK’s leading learned societies.

Ariadna Calcines Rosario received the ENDECAN Award for Scientific and Technological Talent in recognition of her professional career achievements in the design and development of image slicer technology for astronomy, her main research area at the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation at Durham University.

An international team of physicists, led in the UK by our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, has discovered over 40 previously unknown stars.

This year's review panel have been carefully evaluating all the applications and are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024/2025 Developing Talent Awards.

Professor of Astrophysics and esteemed former Durham colleague, Professor Richard Ellis CBE FRS has recently been elected as an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.

We have been ranked third in the UK for interdisciplinary science research.

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos.

Four Durham Physics researchers have been named on a prestigious list for their world-leading research. Professors Carlos Frenk, Adrian Jenkins, Tom Theuns and the late Richard Bower from our Institute for Computational Cosmology have all been recognised in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2024.

A new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos has been launched, led by Prof. James Osborn of Durham University's Physics Department, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and associate professor within CfAI. The Durham University Space Research Centre (SPARC) draws upon our considerable and world-renowned expertise in space technology and research.

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Dr Daniele Sorini, from our Institute for Computational Cosmology, discusses new research which suggests our Universe may not be especially tailored for intelligent life after all.

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.

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.