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The RAS is sponsoring Ada Lovelace Day, 11 October, this year, with an especial interest in ALD Live!, an evening of music, comedy and science fun.

Europe's billion star mapper has released its first set of data, based on the first year of data.

The world – and Caroline Herschel – came to Burlington House on 17 September. Find out what they found...

Here are the latest Town Hall Meetings for the second tranche of RAS200 funding

The discovery of Neptune involves intrigue, mystery and orbital mechanics. A birthday dinner, an uncredited observer and dodgy behaviour in the twentieth century all play a part.

Manchester is the place to go to see spectacular art linking astronomy and indigenous culture – but hurry!

There's no place like home – or is there? A rocky planet that could orbit in the habitable zone has been discovered around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

Asteroseismology lets astronomers examine galactic archaeology, stellar interiors and strange binary systems – and it owes a lot to the hunt for exoplanets and missions such as Kepler.

There are a lot of useful resources in space – and entrepreneurs are going to be exploring them soon. RAS Meeting organisers Ian Crawford, Martin Elvis and James Carpenter draw together some new ideas in their A&G article.

Do you have a striking image related to geophysics? if so, then you could enter the British Geophysical Association Image Competition for 2016.