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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...

The Royal Astronomical Society offers its condolences to the family of Professor Stephen Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA, whose death was announced today. Over six decades, Professor Hawking carried out ground-breaking work in cosmology, seeking to...

Astronomers reveal a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy, published in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The team,...

The Royal Astronomical Society offers its condolences to the friends and family of Professor Donald-Lynden Bell , who has died at the age of 82. He served as RAS President from 1985 to 1987 and received the Society’s Gold Medal in 1993. Lynden-Bell...

The new issue of Astronomy & Geophysics (A&G), the in-house journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), is now available for advance viewing online! The latest Editor’s Choice includes a spotlight on the Society’s new million-pound programme of...

The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the 2018 winners of its awards, medals and prizes . Each year the RAS recognises significant achievement in the fields of astronomy and geophysics through these awards. The announcements were made...

Geophysical Journal International (GJI) is delighted to announce the winners of its Student Author Awards for 2017. The awards are designed to recognise and acknowledge the best papers submitted to GJI by young scientists in the field. Manuscripts...

The Royal Astronomical Society applauds astronaut Dr Helen Sharman, space scientist Professor Michele Dougherty and geophysicist Professor Kathy Whaler, recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2018. Michele Dougherty is Professor of Space...

The UK astronomy and geophysics community is larger than ever, according to the results of the latest demographic survey from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), published in the December issue of Astronomy & Geophysics , the RAS in-house journal....

Professor Hiranya Peiris, one of the vice-presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society, is part of the team of winners of the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The scientists worked on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)...

Philip Diamond, currently the Associate Director for Policy and Programmes at the Institute of Physics, will be the next Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, beginning his new role in January 2018. Philip studied physics at...