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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...
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Last chance to nominate for 2026 RAS Awards

Professor James Binney, of Oxford University (right with RAS president Professor Mike Lockwood), and University College London's Professor Jonathan Tennyson (left), received the Society's Gold Medal at the 2025 RAS Awards ceremony during the National Astronomy Meeting in Durham. Inset is all the winners of the 2025 RAS Awards.
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Winners of 2025 RAS Awards receive their prizes

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UK Planetary Forum joins RAS as Affiliated Group
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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
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Top view of the Milky Way galaxy showing the estimated orbits of both our Sun and the 3I/ATLAS comet.
Newly discovered interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
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The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation.
The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
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Numbers of staff and postgraduate students in astronomy, solar system science and geophysics in the 2023, 2016 and 2010 surveys.
Astronomy and geophysics 'still overwhelmingly white'
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Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
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Top view of the Milky Way galaxy showing the estimated orbits of both our Sun and the 3I/ATLAS comet.
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Newly discovered interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
The dark matter distribution of a Milky Way mass halo in a Lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmological simulation.
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The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought
Numbers of staff and postgraduate students in astronomy, solar system science and geophysics in the 2023, 2016 and 2010 surveys.
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Astronomy and geophysics 'still overwhelmingly white'
Colour image of a flat top, heavily eroded FSR. Sand dunes can be seen migrating over the top of the FSR.
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Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
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