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People across the UK got a spectacular and surprise view of the Northern Lights last Friday, as the most extreme geomagnetic storm in two decades made the natural light show visible much further south than usual. Stunning images of the lights - also...

Bold new plans to strengthen the Royal Astronomical Society’s reputation as the pre-eminent voice on astronomy, geophysics and solar-system science have been set out in a new five-year strategy launched today. It puts members “at the front and centre...

An award-winning physicist who specialises in the cutting-edge study of space weather, the Northern Lights and solar radiation has become the new president of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Professor Mike Lockwood, of the University of Reading...

Scientific minds from across the spheres of astronomy, physics and space science are being called on to help shape the future of science at home and abroad. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is looking for panel and committee...

The possibility that Stonehenge aligns with the positions of the Moon - as well as the Sun - is being investigated by a team of experts and organisations including the Royal Astronomical Society. Archaeoastronomers led by English Heritage will study...

BBC Radio 4 is set to air an episode of The Life Scientific exploring the life and work of the Royal Astronomical Society’s president Mike Edmunds. Hosted by theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili, the programme was recorded last month in front of a...

This beautiful image of the Sun slightly obscured by the Moon reveals what the ‘Great American Eclipse’ looked like from the UK. Tens of millions of people across the US, Mexico and Canada got to savour an awe-inspiring view of a total solar eclipse...

Our solar system and everything within it - including the Earth - will look very different when the Sun dies. But whether the planet we call home is “swallowed” up by our dying star or manages to escape its clutches, only time will tell. The inner...

A total solar eclipse will put on a show for people across North America on Monday (April 8) - but there’s also a chance the western UK and Ireland could get in on the act, too. That’s because observers on the European side of the Atlantic may be...

A Mount Everest-sized ‘devil’ comet making its first visit to the inner solar system in more than 70 years could be visible to the naked eye over the next few weeks. The once or possibly twice-in-a-lifetime object, known as 12P/Pons-Brooks, is due to...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is delighted to announce that an agreement has been reached with the Government to secure a 999-year leasehold on the Society’s headquarters in London. It protects the 150-year-old scientific and cultural...

A globally-renowned seismologist who has studied every major earthquake of the past 35 years has been appointed editor-in-chief of Geophysical Journal International (GJI), one of the world's leading peer-reviewed research journals in solid-Earth...