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Watch Dr Sheila Kanani, RAS Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer in this report from ITN on Cimon, the new AI robot for the International Space Station.

The galaxy is rich in grease-like molecules, according to an Australian-Turkish team. Astronomers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney (UNSW), and Ege University in Turkey used a laboratory to manufacture material with the same properties...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), believe clouds of dust, rather than twin black holes, can explain the features found in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The team publish their results today (14 June) in a paper in...

The Royal Astronomical Society congratulates Professor (Sir) James Hough of the University of Glasgow, and Professor Haley Gomez (MBE) of the University of Cardiff, who are both recognised in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Prof. Hough is...

A new study has discovered the first known permanent immigrant to our Solar System. The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter’s orbit, is the first known asteroid to have been captured from another star system. The work is published in Monthly...

The RAS congratulates Professor Sheila Rowan - Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and director of the University of Glasgow’s IGR ( Institute for Gravitational Research ) - on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her...

The results of the 2018 RAS elections were announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Society on Friday 11 May. The following Fellows were elected to serve on Council, the governing body of the Society: Vice President (A): Dr Stacey Habergham...

The European Space Agency (ESA) today released the largest dataset yet from the Gaia satellite , an orbiting observatory mapping the Milky Way. Launched in 2013, Gaia is mapping our Galaxy in unprecedented detail. The latest release includes high...

Artificial intelligence is giving scientists new hope for studying the habitability of planets, in a study from astronomers Chris Lam and David Kipping. Their work looks at so-called ‘Tatooines’, and uses machine learning techniques to calculate how...

Highlights from the April issue of Astronomy & Geophysics (A&G), the in-house journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , are now available for free advance viewing online. A&G Editor Sue Bowler’s top picks for this month include a plea for order in...

New research finds that 'Oumuamua , the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, very likely came from a binary star system. "It's remarkable that we've now seen for the first time a physical object from outside our Solar...

Pride in STEM, House of STEM, and InterEngineering are proud to announce the launch of the first ever International Day of LGBT+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths, called LGBTSTEM Day , to be celebrated on 5 July 2018. The purpose...