The feat made it into our top 10 breakthroughs for this year. Still on the podcast front, this Physics World Stories podcast from this year features a fascinating chat with astronaut Eileen Collins, ...

In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will start operations and survey the southern sky every four days with a 3.2 gigapixel camera.

Physics, the study of space, time, matter, and energy, is a fundamental component of a liberal education. Introductory courses in physics and astronomy are designed to give students a broad background ...

plasma physics, electromagnetism, mathematics, probability and statistics, and geophysics. This handbook will be an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals working in ...

The Hubble tension is one of the most hotly debated discrepancies in all of astronomy. It centers around a number called the ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory ...

We are proud to have come first in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 in terms of the quality of our research – 100 per cent of research and impact from our department was rated as world ...