News
December 2023
New research journal launched by Astronomy Unit member
Centre for Fundamental Physics
8 December 2023Dr Enrico Camporeale, Senior Lecturer in Queen Mary's Astronomy Unit, has become the founding editor-in-chief of the new journal, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Machine Learning and Computation. The journal, published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) was launched in November 2023 and has just opened for submissions. JGR: Machine Learning ... [more]
November 2023
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal potential for earth-like planets in harsh environments
Centre for Fundamental Physics
30 November 2023A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that planets like Earth, including those with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments. These environments, drenched in intense ultraviolet radiation from massive stars, were previously thought to be too hostile for planet formation. The study, led ... [more]
September 2023
QMUL Astronomy Unit win SEPnet award for public engagement
Centre for Fundamental Physics
28 September 2023The Astronomy Unit has jointly topped the Research Group category at the biennial SEPnet Public Engagement awards, being one of only two groups chosen as "Highly Commended". SEPnet noted how the QMUL Astronomy Unit has embedded outreach and public engagement within the culture of the group. Over the last year, ... [more]
Dr Ed Gillen receives €1.5 million European Research Council Grant to study exoplanet evolution
Faculty of Science and Engineering
5 September 2023Dr Ed Gillen, from Queen Mary's Astronomy Unit, has been awarded €1.5 million from the European Research Council to support a team to investigate how exoplanetary systems evolve into potentially habitable environments. With over 5000 exoplanets discovered to date, and many more expected in the coming years, we are living through a ... [more]
August 2023
QMUL's Astronomy Unit members deliver a series of talks at the Royal Institution
Centre for Fundamental Physics
31 August 2023Five academics from QMUL, including four from the Astronomy Unit, have delivered a series of talks at the Royal Institution, covering topics in Astronomy from stars, to gravitational waves and cosmology. The talks have attracted a large audience, both in person and on YouTube, and are part of the Astronomy ... [more]
July 2023
Queen Mary Part of New Leverhulme Grant for Astrobiology
Centre for Fundamental Physics
13 July 2023Queen Mary's new inter-school astrobiology initiative has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Project grant. Led by Thomas Haworth from the Queen Mary Astronomy Unit and Christopher Duffy from the Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI), with involvement from Conrad Mullineaux from the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences (SBBS), ... [more]
June 2023
A new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system identified
Centre for Fundamental Physics
13 June 2023Researchers in QMUL's Astronomy Unit were involved in the discovery of a new multi-planetary system orbiting two stars, only the second such system known to exist. An international team of astronomers has announced the second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system. The team involves researchers from Europe and the USA, ... [more]
February 2023
Dr Tom Haworth awarded €2m from European Research Council to investigate planet forming discs
Centre for Fundamental Physics
3 February 2023Dr Thomas Haworth from QMUL's Astronomy Unit has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €2m to investigate how planet forming discs evolve in different environments. We now expect that pretty much every star in our Galaxy hosts at least one planet. We also have overwhelming evidence ... [more]