IoA Researcher awarded ERC Starting Grant

5 September 2023

Dr Suhail Dhawan is one of three researchers at the University of Cambridge to be awarded this prestigious funding. Read more...

Martin Rees tops list of Royal Society Medal and Award winners

30 Aug 2023

Renowned Cambridge astrophysicist and cosmologist Professor Lord Martin Rees has been named this year’s recipient of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific award. Read more...

Mission to map the dark Universe sets off on space journey

Press release 1 July 2023

A European mission to explore how gravity, dark energy and dark matter shaped the evolution of the Universe has soared into space. Read more...

Tracing 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars

Press release 8 March 2023

New evidence for rapid heating in the early universe Read more...

Hiranya Peiris appointed Professor of Astrophysics (1909)

27 February 2023

World-leading cosmologist Professor Hiranya Peiris has been appointed Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Read more...

More clues to understand our early Universe

Press release January 2023

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “the Epoch of Re-ionization” — the era just after the first stars ignited and galaxies began to bloom. Read more...

Astronomy News

Upcoming Talks at the IoA

Tuesday 12 September 2023

Speaker to be confirmed

Test Talk

Time: 16:00-17:00 [details]

Friday 15 September 2023

Johannes Buchner (MPE)

Super-massive black holes across cosmic time

Time: 11:30-12:30 [details]

Monday 18 September 2023

Matthew Colless (ANU)

Peculiar velocity surveys for cosmology: recent results and future plans

Time: 13:05-13:45 [details]

Tuesday 19 September 2023

Piero Madau (UCSC)

Reionizing the Universe: A Brief History of Baryons and the Cosmic Web