Announcements

Election results 2021: new RAS Council
The results of the 2021 RAS elections were announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Society on Friday 14 May. The following Fellows were elected to serve on Council, the governing body of the Society. Where indicated ‘A’ designates astronomy a…
Can you help us find the Moon Trees?
There could be as many as 15 Moon Trees in the UK – trees grown from seeds flown around the Moon by NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. But where are they now? The Royal Astronomical Society and the UK Space Agency would lov…
Dr Cosimo Inserra wins EAS Merac Prize
Dr Cosimo Inserra of Cardiff University has won the European Astronomical Society’s Merac Prize for Observational Astrophysics, recognising the best early career researchers. Dr Inserra is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and obtained his P…
We Share the Same Moon - Light series
  We Share the Same Moon is a free online resource for science educators around the globe to champion the use of storytelling as a stimulus for science learning. In March 2021 we explored the theme: What is Light? A series exploring…
All About Mars resources from National Astronomy Week for parents, teachers and students
The Royal Astronomical Society hosted the National Astronomy Week (NAW) for the United Kingdom in November 2020 whose focus was Mars, the planet. You can learn more about the event here: https://astronomyweek.org.uk/ With the successful landing of t…
National Astronomy Meeting to be a Virtual Conference
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the  Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the University of Bath have decided to hold the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021) as a virtual conference from 19-23 July. We are all in an unprecedente…
Publishing now and in the future
The RAS journals had a makeover in 2020, with new covers to mark the Society's bicentenary. Royal Astronomical Society Licence type All Rights Reserved…
200 years of the RAS: Publishing progress
The RAS has been publishing scientific research for almost 200 years. In a new exploration of our publishing history in A&G, assistant editors Bella Lock and Louise Alexander review how the Society's world-class journals began and evolved. Read…
Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 1927-2020
The Royal Astronomical Society offers its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Professor Sir Arnold Wolfendale, who has died at the age of 93. Professor Wolfendale completed his PhD at the University of Manchester in 1953, wh…
Royal Astronomical Society Honours Stars of Astronomy and Geophysics
The Royal Astronomical Society today announced the 2021 winners of its medals and prizes, awarded to scientists around the world for significant achievement in the fields of astronomy and geophysics. Their work encompasses topics as diverse as…
Gaia: most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
Today (3 December), an international team of astronomers announced the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar positions, movement, brightness and colours are in the third e…