Our scientists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a flagship NASA mission to search for life on distant planets.

A major milestone in a global telescope collaboration involving astronomers from our Department of Physics has been achieved.

The Physics Department's 2025 Awards for Excellence event took place on 16th September in PH8. The event featured a series of science talks, designed to be accessible and engaging for all members of the Department, followed by the presentation of this year's awards.

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Chris Done of our Physics Department, has made a surprising discovery about powerful winds blasting from around a neutron star.

Our Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 24-25 September, recognising a quarter-century of innovative research, global collaboration, and academic excellence.

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department have played a crucial role in verifying the quality of specialist materials destined for the magnets of ITER.

Astronomers have solved a centuries-old puzzle surrounding one of the Universe’s oldest and densest star systems.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration has been awarded the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.

Supercomputer simulations carried out by researchers in our top-rated Physics department cast doubt on a proposed explanation for the structure of Jupiter’s core.

An international team of astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding new light on how galaxies grew and evolved in the early Universe.

The President of Poland has presented Marek Szablewski, Professor of Physics at Durham University, with a prestigious national award for services to the Polish Scouting Association, which operates outside of Poland.

An international team of researchers including physicists here in Durham have made a breakthrough that could help make our phones and computers faster and more energy efficient.