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Hannah Dalgleish won an RAS Grant to attend the 8th Communicating Astronomy to the Public (CAP) conference at the The Fukuoka City Science Museum in Japan – and was exceptionally lucky that the cherry blossom (sakura) came a week early!

The two beautiful regulator clocks that hang outside the Council Room at Burlington House are important items in the Society’s historic instruments collection, writes Beth Gaskell. They are two of the first instruments to be donated to the Society in 1827.

NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter offers an opportunity for amateur observers to collaborate with mission scientists – to mutual benefit.

A talk to the friends of the RAS provided an opportunity to chat with interesting – and interested –people.

RAS grants and awards support conferences, whether promoting outreach or enhancing international collaboration.

Do you know a star, whether at the peak of their career or an up-and-coming world leader of the future? If so, now is the time to nominate them for an RAS Medal or Award

A paper in an RAS journal documents traces of a North Korean underground nuclear test in 2016 – demonstrating the value of a technique not used since 1992. InSAR data complements seismic methods more widely used to monitor such tests.

The RAS has something to say about the US President's Executive Order limiting movement of people from certain countries.

Lina Shumacher has bee awarded the Student Author Prize for her article in Geophysical Journal International

New survey data suggest that dark matter is less clumpy than thought, posing a problem for theorists.