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Professor Dr Heike Rauer receives the 2026 Caroline Herschel Medal at a ceremony at the British Embassy in Berlin.
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2026 Caroline Herschel Medal presented to exoplanet scientist in Berlin

The 2026 Caroline Herschel Medal was awarded to Professor Dr Heike Rauer at a ceremony at the British Embassy in Berlin last month. Professor Rauer was recognised for her exceptional service to the astronomical community, her...
Clockwise, from top left, Dr Olivia Keenan, Professor Peter Gallagher, Professor Jorick Vink, Dr Andy Nowacki, Dr Emma Woodfield and Professor David Alexander were all elected as councillors following the Royal Astronomical Society’s AGM on Friday 8 May. nset, Dr Sheona Urquhart, of The Open University, was re-elected as a Secretary for a five-year term.
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Six new trustees elected to RAS Council

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New RAS President demands impact assessment of proposed astronomy cuts

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WATCH: New film explores how Rum became UK’s second Dark Sky Sanctuary
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Audience members at the RAS conference on light pollution in 2025.
Artificial light a 'pollutant' to humans, nature and astronomy
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(A) A dark matter map in our neighbourhood of the universe. The two large densities are dark matter halos of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy; (B) Zoomed-in on the dark matter map, showing a small dark matter clump ~700 million years after the Big Bang; (C-1 and C-2) stars and gas in the simulated ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, formed in the centre of the small dark matter halo in panel B. The two panels show two different radiation levels shortly after the Big Bang. It reveals how the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
Milky Way's 'little cousins' may hold clues about infant universe
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RAS Fellows Professor Gillian Wright CBE (left), Dr Graeme McGhee (right) and Professor Rashid Sunyaev (inset) have been recognised in this year’s European Astronomical Society prizes.
European Astronomical Society awards prizes to trio of RAS Fellows
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Visual impressions of the COLIBRE simulations
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See and hear galaxies evolve from the dawn of the universe
An artist’s impression of the Milky Way, with two of its satellite galaxies – the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud – in the bottom left.
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Galactic warming: The ‘car engine-like’ effect heating our Milky Way
A diagram depicting habitable zone boundaries across star type with rocky exoplanets from Bohl et al. (2026). The boundaries of the habitable zone shift based on star colour, since different wavelengths of light will heat a planet's atmosphere differently. 
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The best places to look for alien life: Scientists identify 45 Earth-like worlds to explore for a 'Project Hail Mary'
This image was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on 1 January 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, known as Arrokoth.
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Why some objects in space look like snowmen
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