4 June 2019: Owing to unforeseen personal circumstances the current Assistant General Secretary, Ian Robson, has left office. These special circumstances allow the IAU to open the position of IAU Assistant General Secretary ...

6 June 2019: Within the framework of its 100th anniversary commemorations, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is organising the IAU100 NameExoWorlds global campaign that allows any country in the world to give a ...

3 June 2019: The IAU’s Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) and Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) have teamed up to publish the first edition of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public ...

3 June 2019: Over the past decades, considerable effort has gone into designing, building, and deploying satellites for many important purposes. Recently networks, known as satellite constellations, have been deployed and are planned ...

31 May 2019: The Astronomy Outreach Newsletter 2019 #10 is now online. It is produced by the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach and brings to the general public the latest information about events ...

31 May 2019: Valeriya Korol of Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, and Martin Turbet of the Geneva Astronomical Observatory, Switzerland, have both been awarded The Gruber Foundation Fellowship for 2019. In conjunction with the ...