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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

Dr Inserra wins Outstanding Contribution Award for researcher development

8 October 2025

The Vitae Impact, Culture and Engagement (ICE) Award recognises Dr Cosimo Inserra’s contribution to the researcher development community

An image depicting a black hole binary merger with an eccentric orbital path

Likely origins of black hole collision with “squashed” orbital path revealed

8 October 2025

Scientists compare properties of rarely seen type of black hole merger to probe its formation history

Gravitational waves

A decade of discovery: Academics celebrate 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves amid announcement of exciting new breakthrough

10 September 2025

Scientists celebrate anniversary and tests of Stephen Hawking's black hole area theorem

Cardiff University rocket team wins at space competition

28 August 2025

The student team won the Hybrid Rocket Engine category at the Race 2 Space competition, a groundbreaking educational initiative to boost the UK space sector.

The butterfly nebula, NGC 6302, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

JWST observations of Butterfly Nebula reveal how cosmic dust is made in space

27 August 2025

Astronomers say observations show planetary nebulae are surprisingly dynamic objects which create cool gemstones and fiery grime