Press Releases
Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation
The University of Warwick and UCL astronomers, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and Europe, have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet, which should not exist under leading planet formation theories.
Why all lightsabers on Earth would be blue, and could we really freeze people in carbonite? University of Warwick chemist tells the scientific stories of Star Wars
Almost 50 years on from the release of Star Wars: Episode IV, Dr. Alex Baker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at The University of Warwick is turning science fiction into science fact on May the 4th, International Star Wars Day.
Warwick astronomers discover doomed pair of spiralling stars on our cosmic doorstep
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky.