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A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ taking a leading role.

Two ¹û¶³´«Ã½ academics have been recognised by the Royal Society’s Wolfson Merit Award scheme, awarded to outstanding scientists to support their research careers at UK universities.

Dr Emma Pickwell-MacPherson, of the Ultrafast and Terahertz Photonics Group in the Department of Physics, and Professor Nasir Rajpoot, an expert in cancer histology image analysis, will receive additional funding to support their research at ¹û¶³´«Ã½ over the next five years.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ physicists have joined a new $500 million international partnership to probe some of universe’s most mysterious particles, thanks to the UK Government’s investment of £65 million in the programme. The flagship global science project, based in the United States, could change our understanding of the universe.

There could be water on multiple Earth-sized planets orbiting the recently discovered TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star - making them potentially habitable - according to an international collaboration of researchers, including the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ scientists are contributing to a new particle physics experiment that will study mysterious particles called neutrinos - which could reveal why we live in a matter-dominated universe.

Revolutionary physicist, Dr Don Eigler, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in honour of his achievements in scientific research. Don Eigler was the first person to move individual atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) while working at the IBM Almaden Research Center. His work is at the very heart of nanotechnology and he continues to push the boundaries of physics and nanoscience.