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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 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...

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...