“Move fast and break things” was, until 2014, the internal motto of Facebook. It changed to “Move fast with stable infrastructure”. Well, the new US administration seems to have adopted the hot-headed former approach, and among the things being broken is significant chunks of US science. Widespread ...

Fast radio bursts are the proverbial twitch in the eye of the 21st-century astronomer: they're there, but we don't know why. Francis Graham-Smith looks forward to new sources of information finally enlightening us on this now-decades-old observation.

Long-time collaborator Mark J Reid remembers the director of the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy and RAS Honorary Fellow

Camilo Martinez Ortiz describes the importance of International Asteroid Search Campaigns and how Colombia is playing a big part

Ingrid Pelisoli, Boris Gänsicke and colleagues celebrate the legacy of Tom Marsh, both in his wide-ranging research and as a driving force behind the 21 successful years of astronomy at the University of Warwick

Telling intriguing tales and getting hands-on with exotic instruments really brings astronomy to life. Vassilios Spathopoulos explains his rules of engagement in public outreach.

The fourth award of the annual Caroline Herschel Medal goes to Prof Isobel Hook of the University of Lancaster for her leadership in the study of distant supernovae and the accelerating expansion of the universe. The award panel also noted her visionary role in the development of astronomical ...

A century after Appleton's pioneering experiment, his measurement techniques still underpin our monitoring of Earth's ionosphere. Christopher Scott and Matthew Wild assess their influence.