New discussion questions encourage students to think widely about astronomy and the role science plays in our everyday lives and podcasts for each chapter aid studying and comprehension. 'An excellent ...

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Erin Raif is studying the MPhys course and tells us why it’s a good thing to have your head in the clouds. Third year student Louisa Mason tells us about her experience of a Teach First internship at ...

Study physics and astronomy Our physics courses focus on some of the biggest questions in science: how to build a quantum computer, how to detect dark matter, how to distribute clean energy. We'll ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

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In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric question: did Chinese history predate Judeo-Christian antiquity? Antoine ...

Astronomy students at the University of Manitoba now have a celestial boon at their fingertips. A new $500,000 observatory ...