The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has today announced that all journals published by the Society will be Open Access (OA) from January 2024. This move will enable everyone in the global community ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has chosen Springer to publish a series of volumes on astronomy and geophysics under the auspices of the RAS starting in 2007. The books are primarily aimed at the ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

A prominent British scientific society is allowing James Webb's name to appear in academic papers again, following an "apparent failure" to investigate the former NASA chief's past. The Royal ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has awarded a University of California, Santa Cruz professor a gold medal for his work in geophysics. Prof. Thorne Lay received his medal for his work in ...

The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its Gold Medal in Astronomy to Sandra Faber, professor emerita of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. The award recognizes Faber “for her ...

Near the Moon's western limb lies Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms - a vast swath of terrain spanning 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) north to south, and covering 10.5 percent of the lunar ...

THE following have been elected officers of the Royal Astronomical Society: President: Prof. H. H. Plaskett, Savilian professor of astronomy, University of Oxford ...

THE gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded to Dr. William Hammond Wright, director of the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California,, for his studies of the spectra of ...