The paper is open access for all to read and can be found here - doi.org/10.1093/mnra...

The ageing of host stars can be catastrophic for planets! Our new research into this planet population shows that the evolution of stars causes giant planets to spiral into their host stars and be destroyed. Check out the press release below and paper (published in MNRAS today!) for more

Space swimsuits at the ready! 🧑‍🚀🩱 The latest episode of The Supermassive Podcast explores Mars' wet past and includes a guest appearance from RAS Librarian Sian Prosser. When did the red planet have water? Where did it go? And were there canals on Mars? 🔴🌊 🎧 Listen at: podfollow.com/supermassive/

This year's Caroline Herschel Medal will celebrate an outstanding woman astronomer based in Germany.🏅🔭👩🔬 All women may apply and together with the @germanastrosoc.bsky.social we welcome self-nominations. Find out more at: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g...

A study led by CPS colleagues Dr Ed Bryant (now @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social) and Associate Professor in Exoplanets, Dr Vincent Van Eylen at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory @uclmaps.bsky.social ☀️🪐

🚨New research alert🚨 Ever wondered what might happen to Earth and the other planets in our solar system when the Sun becomes a red giant in 5 billion years? ☀️🔴

A key focus of #ESAJuice will be Ganymede: Jupiter’s largest moon, thought to have a salty ocean beneath its icy shell. Juice will study: ☁️ Ganymede's atmosphere and ionosphere 🧀 Its surface 🌊 The subsurface ocean 3/ 🔭 #CM25

🗞️ Join us online on 12 November for Europlanet Teams Day! A unique opportunity to help you find new collaborators, discover funding and training opportunities and connect with the wider Europlanet community. Register now 👉 bit.ly/europlanet_teamsday

Super opportunity for Early Career Researchers! 👇

🚀 Ready to launch your career into space? ESA Student Internships 2026 are now open! www.esa.int/About_Us/Car... #ESArecruits

We’re very proud to announce that our Director, Prof Karen Olsson-Francis, has been elected President of the European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA). She is the first British President of this prestigious network. Congratulations Karen! 🎉

📣 Come and work with us! FOUR PhD vacancies are now open in AstrobiologyOU for Oct 2026 start. Funding is via the Central England NERC Training Alliance @centa.bsky.social For details and how to apply see the project descriptions. centa.ac.uk/projects/?_s...

📣 Shout all about it! 📣 We've got a new award that may be of interest to student scientists. One of our journals, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), has launched an annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a student scientist. 🧑🔬 🔭 ⤵️

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

🚨Important announcement🚨 The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society to provide outstanding leadership to the Journal and its Editorial Board. 🔭🪐 Want to find out more or apply?👇 ras.ac.uk/mnras-eic

It’s Halloween week and I haven’t seen any talk about our favorite spooky #exoplanets yet this year! Crowd-sourcing ideas for our exoplanet journal club this week — what’s your nomination for spookiest exoplanet? 👻

📢 ⏱️ UKPF Early Careers Meeting **Abstract Deadline this Friday 31st October** - If you are a UK ECR in planetary science, please join us to share your research and network with your peers! 🪐 We'd love to see you in London in January! 🪐

Interested in attending? Fill out the short form below by 30 October 👇 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNMhh-oos29OmuxKmQAcA3gnKscfdikZrHxBpZwDM0FqmSMA/viewform

Want to shape the next chapter of the UK's journey to the Moon? 🚀🌔 We've teamed up with the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social and Lunar Policy Platform to bring together the space community for a workshop about potential challenges and next steps to ensure the UK one day has a presence on the Moon.

#GeoCinema is back for #EGU26! Whether you have filmed fantastic spectacles in the field or produced an educational feature on the Earth, planetary, or space sciences - it's time to submit your short film 🎞️! 📅Submission deadline: 5 December 2025 👀 Application details: egu.eu/13NFE9

🌖 On Europlanet Magazine Issue 8, Javier Eduardo Suárez Valencia of the University of Padova (Italy) reports how Europlanet’s development of an open-source tool to study the mineralogy of the Moon has led to the discovery of new lunar features: www.europlanet.org/europlanet-m...

🧑‍🔬 Are you an early career researcher?🧑‍🔬 If so, we'd love for you to attend our early career event next month. It will feature a careers panel, networking opportunities and a discussion about the importance of effective communication for sharing research. Book your spot at: ras.ac.uk/early-career...

Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved. ☑️ www.nature.com/articles/d41... ☑️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🔭

📣 It’s time! Applications for UCL postgraduate programmes are OPEN. 🌍 Study in London 🎓 Learn from world-leading academics 💼 Boost your career Explore your options now: https://direc.to/nrN7 #UCLMastersMatter

Registration and abstract submission open! Calling all UK-based Early-Career Planetary Scientists 🪐 🌒 ☄️ 🚀 Please join us for the 19th UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting on 9th January 2026, hosted by the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, in London. www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Thanks to @stsci.edu 's excellent team of librarians for flagging that it's International Open Access Week! 🧪🔭https://www.openaccessweek.org #openscience #openaccess

We are excited to have officially opened the new Icy Worlds Laboratory - a dedicated space to experimentally study ice formation using cryogenics for applications across the different icy bodies in our Solar System.

🚨 New FREE course alert 🚨 Discover how scientists safeguard space missions, prevent biological contamination, and explore the ethical dimensions of exploring other worlds. - No experience needed - Free certificate 👉 bit.ly/PlanetaryProtectionCourse #SpaceScience #PlanetaryProtection #FreeCourse

🚀Are you ready to take your first step into the space sector? ⏱️The countdown has begun for the launch of our 2026 Student Internship Programme, and you could be part of it! ✅Mark your calendar📆 ✅Prepare your documents📝 Open for applications in the first week of November. #ESArecruits

📕 Date for the diary 📕 @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social’s 45th annual Astronomy weekend course will take place from the 18-19 April next year. It will celebrate the latest advances in astronomy and planetary science, featuring the best images from space probes and ground-based telescopes. ⤵️

Get your space rocks here: New Elements issue out about Sample Return through the ages www.elementsmagazine.org 🌛🚀🪨👩‍🚀

Technology developed at MSSL heading for space to search for life on Mars. #astrobiology #planetsci 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣 Attention students! 👩🏾🔬🔭 We'll be recognising the best student paper submitted to MNRAS. Want to enter and potentially win a cash prize and certificate? 🏆💫 Find out more at: academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/...

#WorldSpaceWeek ☀️ Spotlight on Lucie Green @luciegreen.bsky.social, Prof of Solar Physics at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory! She does a lot of work to support the development of new missions launched by @esa.int and other space agencies around the world 🛰️ www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

To properly reach the Jupiter system in July 2031, #ESAJuice relies on ephemerides - predicted positions of celestial objects at specific times. Mid October, you have a chance to help improve those ephemerides. @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social has details lte.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/Une-occultat...

Plato is in its final shape! 🙌 Engineers have completed the construction of the spacecraft by mounting its sunshield and solar panels. #ESAPlato is on track to launch in December 2026, as originally planned, on an Ariane 6. More details at 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #exoplanets 🔭

#WorldSpaceWeek 🌑 Prof Raman Prinja (UCL Physics & Astronomy) on the #SundayBrunch talking about the #moon, and his new book for the younger readers 📖 Watch on Channel 4 from 29:27: www.channel4.com/programmes/s.... Image: Channel 4 / Sunday Brunch. #wsw2025 #SpaceScience #astronomy #universe

#WorldSpaceWeek 🚀 PhD student Aida Seye (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discuss shared passions and challenges in chasing cosmic dreams on BBC's Sky at Night programme (from 20 mins 23 secs): bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis.... #wsw2025 #WomenInScience #SkyAtNight #STEM

🔔 Meeting Announcement Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG)- virtual/ Nov 12, 2025 ℹ️ www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/meetin... #PlanetarySci 🧪

On the night of 13-14 October, Jupiter's moon #Ganymede will pass in front of star HIP37442. Observing this occultation pinpoints Ganymede's position even more precisely, helping our Juice mission reach its target. Can you help? Details from @obs-paris-psl.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4hcPguB

🔭 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, Perseverance Rover apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the interior of the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new study co-led by Professor Yang Li @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social @pku1898.bsky.social of rock samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission

Black History Month is a nationwide celebration of Black people’s contributions to British society throughout history. Discover what's going on at UCL with our round-up of activities on campus and beyond ⬇️ www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

'New Earth-based metric could improve the search for habitable planets' - a study led by CPS colleague and PhD researcher, Hannah Woodward, from the School of Natural Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London. #Astrobiology #Habitability #PlanetaryScience www.bbk.ac.uk/news/new-ear...

World Space Week 2025 is nearly here! Explore space careers, planetary protection & astrobiology ethics through talks & on-demand content. 👉 stem.open.ac.uk/events #WorldSpaceWeek #SpaceForAll #STEMEvents

World Space Week is fast approaching... and there's plenty of activities and events to get involved in! 🚀🪐💫 On Saturday we'll be hosting a live stream of the Moon for NASA's International Observe the Moon Night, in partnership with the University of Reading and Troodos Observatory in Cyprus. ⤵️

Do you miss #EPSC? Don't worry, we are already preparing the next ones! ✨ #EPSC2026 will be in The Hague, Netherlands from 6-11 September 2026. ✨ #EPSC2027 will be in Toulouse, France from 19-24 September 2027.

What a wonderful evening Stargazing at the Wonders of the Dark Sky event at @[email protected]. Clear skies and amazing volunteer astronomers. Thanks to WOLAS, SWHAS, Chiltern Society, Woodoaks and Colne Valley Park.

still looking for an iceberg researcher! is that you or someone you know? 🧪

Know someone who uses space to inspire and educate? 🚀🪐 Why not nominate them for our Annie Maunder Medal, which is open to everyone involved in outreach or public engagement for astronomy or geophysics. Apply by Friday at: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g...