Queen’s physicist Dermot Green secures a €2M European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to advance his ANTIMATTER project, exploring low-energy antimatter interactions with matter and light.

We're pleased to announce that Professor Gianluca Sarri has been awarded the KAW Legacy Award, an important recognition in the field of plasma and nuclear fusion research.

Congratulations to our students Ciara McHugh, Ciara Ward, Christopher McHugh, Oliver Cunningham, Cameron Shaw, Poppy McPeake and Filip Misiarz who competed in the UK and Ireland PLANCKS preliminary competition at the University of Surrey.

A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black hole in a discovery that solves a mystery which had perplexed astronomers for years.

A Belfast-based astronomer is gearing up for the culmination of over 20 years of preparation when he takes part in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first ever planetary-defence mission, to help ward off the threat of an asteroid crashing into Earth.

Planetary Astronomers at Queen’s University Belfast have conducted a study to uncover one of the Solar Systems biggest mysteries; what happened to Chiron?

“Girls in Maths and Physics” aims to inspire young female and gender minority mathematicians and physicists to consider a career in these areas and is sponsored by the School’s Gender Equality and Outreach committees.

Early results of people-powered astronomy project 'out of this world'

Previously unknown properties of the precious metal gold and its melting point have been uncovered by an international team of scientists led by Queen’s University Belfast.