12 April 2019: The IAU 1919–2019: 100 Years Under One Sky Celebration Flagship Ceremony took place at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels (Belgium) on 11–12 April 2019. The event was held ...

11 April 2019: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has published a new booklet From Medicine to Wi-Fi; Technical Applications of Astronomy to Society, detailing developments in astronomy that have permeated throughout modern-day life ...

10 April 2019: Three astronomers, Meg Schwamb, Mike Brown and David Rabinowitz, are inviting the public to help name a Kuiper Belt Object in the outer Solar System. Discovered in 2007, the object ...

8 April 2019: The Galileoscope was selected as a cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) [1]. Over the last decade, supported by several organisations [2], more than 250 000 ...

8 April 2019: The IAU Symposium 334 Rediscovering our Galaxy has been awarded two prizes at the 2018 Potsdam Congress Prize (PKP*18). The prizes, awarded annually, recognise organisers of conferences in the ...