The latest budget proposal announced by the largest UK science funding agency threatens to severely affect UK astrophysics research. My colleagues and I are fighting back.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

The conference Discs on the Exe: From protostellar discs to debris discs and planets conference will be held on 27th – 31st July 2026, in person at the University of Exeter, UK. If you would like t...

If plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ...

UKRI’s new funding framework takes a stab at classifying budgets – but doesn’t yet govern research

The first set of high-resolution ALMA observations of exoKuiper belts has been released, and they reveal an unprecedented wealth of structure.

At time of writing, large language models (LLMs) are beginning to obtain the ability to design, execute, write up, and referee scientific projects on the data-science side of astrophysics. What implic...

UK’s research funding body says best scientists are taking posts overseas due to lack of job stability at home

A Software Engineering Workshop for Astronomy

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in...

Why should we give more context to the incredible contributions to STEM by exceptional women? And do you need to be exceptional to be successful? Find out in this interview with Dr Claire Davies!

New survey of exocomet belts is changing what we know about planetary systems