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ARIEL mission craft

Green light for exoplanet mission

20 March 2018

European Space Agency announces details of international science mission, including scientists from Cardiff University, to explore how exoplanets – planets around distant stars – form and evolve

Image of dress designed by Wendy Sadler

A coded message for the Queen

1 February 2018

Wendy Sadler collects her MBE in a very special dress designed with sound waves.

Ada's Adventures in Science

Science comic book Kickstarter launches in Cardiff

18 January 2018

Campaign created to share science comic book trilogy with schoolchildren around the world

Cardiff physicists celebrate Nobel success

Cardiff physicists celebrate Nobel success

11 January 2018

Cardiff University’s LIGO members attend Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm to celebrate with this year’s laureates

HAtlas image

A century of galaxy discrimination revealed by giant European astronomy survey

21 December 2017

View of the Universe provided by traditional optical telescopes is biased, according to new research.

cosmic rays

Wales gets its first network of cosmic ray detectors

30 November 2017

Major international project will give schoolchildren the chance to explore some of the most important questions in astrophysics

0.4m telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory

Public to join the hunt for Einstein's gravitational waves

24 November 2017

New citizen science project will allow public to search the sky for signs of violent cosmic events that lead to the production of space-time ripples

CUBRIC cladding

Cardiff named University of the Year

3 November 2017

Clean sweep for nominations at the Business and Education Partnerships Awards.

Data Innovation Research Institute

New centre to train next generation of data scientists

27 October 2017

Cardiff University awarded Centre for Doctoral Training to tackle growing issue of managing mountains of data from large-scale science projects

Neutron stars

First detection of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

16 October 2017

Cardiff University scientists make critical contribution to landmark discovery