Press Releases
The Marsh Observatory to train astronomers of the future
The University of Warwick has opened its doors to its brand-new Marsh Observatory – which will train astronomers of the future. The on-campus telescope facility was opened by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967 and one of a handful of women to have been awarded prestigious Royal Astronomical Society gold medal.
Rare six-planet star system discovery is music to astronomers’ ears
A rare star system with six exoplanets has been discovered with an architecture unchanged for billions of years.
Warwick celebrates its Highly Cited Researchers
Five academics from the University of Warwick have been named in the 2023 Highly Cited Researcher list.
What Guy Fawkes can teach us about the sky at night
With bonfire night on the horizon, scientists reveal just why fireworks are differently coloured and what this can teach us about stars in space.
First JWST observations of a ‘Kilonova’ merger of two stars
For the first time, the JWST has observed the rare merger of two dense neutron stars (known as a kilonova) – in a spiral galaxy a billion light years away.
Satellite swarm to provide ‘missing link’ between space weather and space debris
The European Space Agency (ESA) has funded a new mission concept involving a “swarm” of satellites to address the growing threat of space debris. The news comes as just this week the US government issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.