Announcements

From left, the 2025 GJI Student Author Award winners Masayoshi Someya, Xiongwei Liu and Jingtao Min.
2025 GJI Student Author Award winners announced
Geophysical Journal International (GJI) is delighted to announce the winners of its 2025 Student Author Award. The annual prize is designed to recognise and acknowledge the 'best papers' submitted to GJI from student scientists in the field. Manuscr…
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Call for applications: Editor-in-Chief, MNRAS
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) to provide outstanding leadership to the Journal and its Editorial Board. The EiC will be r…
Job vacancy: Head of Membership
Location: Hybrid (Central London, circa 60% on-site) Contract: Full-time, Permanent Salary: £50-65k per annum Are you passionate about build…
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RASTI listed in Web of Science
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce that its journal RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI) has been included in the Clarivate…
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RASTI launches new student prize
RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI) is delighted to announce a new annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a st…
A&G Readers Survey 2025
Take part in A&G Readers Survey
The Royal Astronomical Society and Oxford University Press would like to invite Fellows to provide feedback on the Society's flagship bimonthly magazine, Astronomy & Geophysics (A&G). The brief, anonymous Readers Survey takes about…
Professor David Flower alongside an image of a front cover of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
MNRAS Editor-in-Chief to step down next year
The Editor-in-Chief of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Professor David Flower, is to step down after more than a decade in the…
Graphic promoting the RAS Awards 2026 with the Society's medals in front of a background image of the Cartwheel galaxy from JWST and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
RAS Awards 2026: Deadline for nominations extended
Due to technical issues with our website, we understand that some people may have experienced difficulties submitting nominations for our 2026 RAS Awards. To ensure everyone has a fair opportunity, we are reopening the awards round until Wednesday,…
Professor Michele Dougherty
Michele Dougherty becomes first female Astronomer Royal
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty CBE FRS FRAS on her appointment as Astronomer Royal. The Society has a strong working relationship with Professor Dougherty in her position as Executive Chair of t…
Last chance to nominate for 2026 RAS Awards
Time is running out to submit nominations for the Royal Astronomical Society's 2026 Awards. There is now less than a week to go before the deadline closes for most awards – 31 July 2025 – although the Education and Outreach Awards have a later…
The winners of the MNRAS Student Prize 2025 are, clockwise from top left, Konstantinos Kilmetis, Natasha Van Bemmel, Ignas Juodžbalis, Jesús Carrillo-Santamaría, Hanyuan Zhang and Dávid Puskás.
MNRAS Student Prize Winners 2025
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 MNRAS Student Prize. The annual award recognis…
RAS reopens Burlington House HQ
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to welcome back staff, Fellows and members of the public to its offices at Burlington House. A power outage in the surrounding area had temporarily forced the closure of the offices last week. We apologise a…