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“I feel like it's my city”

13 July 2026

Cardiff University graduate progresses onto a PhD at University College London to continue her placement research

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Cardiff astrophysicist awarded Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship 2026

7 July 2026

Ernest Rutherford Fellow Dr Isobel Romero-Shaw will deliver her lecture on deciphering binary black hole origins with Gravitational Waves

A team of scientists are photographed in the lab wearing PPE conducting an experiment with lots of technological equipment including lenses, mirrors and lasers.

Breakthrough optical experiment could provide first experimental evidence for quantum gravity

23 June 2026

Cardiff scientist wins ERC award for project aiming to resolve one of the most important challenges in science

An artist's impression of a binary black hole merger.

Cardiff researchers hail coming-of-age for gravitational wave astronomy as event catalogue nearly doubles

9 June 2026

161 events added to collection bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390

A telescope image of the Messier 51 galaxy, which comprises of red-orange, clumpy filaments of gas and dust that stretch in a chain from left to right. Shining cyan bubbles light up parts of the gas clouds from within, and gaps expose bright star clusters in these bubbles as glowing white dots. The whole image is dotted with small stars. A faint blue glow around the arm colours the otherwise dark background.

Massive star clusters “emerge” from natal clouds 1.5 times faster than low-mass ones, study finds

11 May 2026

Researchers use advanced space telescopes to quantify the time it takes for clusters to disperse natal cloud for first time

Yellow and white objects of different shapes and sizes are shown against a black background, representing hundreds of thousands of stars bound together in a crowded environment in space.

Biggest black holes built up in busy star clusters after series of violent merging events, research finds

7 May 2026

Team identifies two distinct black hole populations in version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

New podcast shines a light on the people behind exoplanet discoveries

3 March 2026

New podcast 'About Growing Worlds' has a clear mission to highlight the human stories driving breakthroughs in exoplanet science.

An elliptical shape composed of the colours red, blue and green sits on a black background

Mysterious iron ‘bar’ discovered in famous nebula

16 January 2026

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionized iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula

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Cardiff astrophysicist wins prestigious medal for global science outreach

15 January 2026

Dr Edward Gomez is the recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society’s Annie Maunder Medal 2026

An artist’s impression of two merging neutron stars

Top European research award for pioneering consortium

16 December 2025

The ENGRAVE Consortium receives the Into Change Award 2025