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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

A man is photographed carrying out a science experiment in public

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

Three students are photographed standing in a line

Cardiff team ranks among world’s best at Bangkok finals of global entrepreneurship competition

4 November 2025

Alumni team placed in top 16 after rigorous pitching of carbon capture system over three days in Thai capital

A telescope image of the Red Spider Nebula

Webb serves up Halloween treat with new images of cosmic creepy crawly

30 October 2025

Telescope reveals never-before-seen details in Red Spider Nebula

An artistic impression of an unequal-mass binary black-hole merger

New light shed on formation and evolution of black hole binary mergers by pair measured just one month apart

28 October 2025

Mergers measured by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration advance scientific understanding of nature of black hole formation and fundamental physics

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

World’s most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves

9 October 2025

QUEST leads search for gravitational waves at frequencies never before explored