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In October 2023, astronomers, planetary scientists and biologists gathered in Kyiv for Ukraine’s first international astrobiology meeting, advancing science and crossing disciplinary borders in wartime.
New detector technologies and upcoming facilities will revolutionize sub-millimetre astronomy over the next decade. Experts in instrument science, data processing, observations, and state-of-the-art simulations met at the Lorentz Center in Leiden to discuss the most pressing science questions in the field.
The far side of the Moon offers unique advantages for science. A meeting at the Royal Society in London brought together planetary scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists and other stakeholders to discuss the future of astronomy from the Moon.
The first post-launch science meeting dedicated to the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft met in-person in Belfast nearly two and a half years into the mission, focusing on building new collaborations and rekindling old friendships.
More than 500 participants from around the globe registered for the first Astronomers for Planet Earth Symposium, to discuss and push for more sustainability in the field of astronomy as well as opportunities for astronomers to contribute to climate communication.
Over the last ten billion years, star formation in the Universe has been on the decline. Astronomers met at the University of Cambridge to discuss causes and themes of galaxy quenching.
The theme of tensions in cosmology has become increasingly important in the cosmological community, proving capable of attracting new generations of scientists who want to be there and contribute to the next paradigm shift.
The European Astronomical Society (EAS) awarded its most prestigious prizes during its annual meeting held in Valencia, Spain. After two virtual meetings, astronomers attended in-person or watched some of the sessions remotely.
Black-hole activity feedback is intensively studied on both galaxy-cluster scales and parsec scales. There are, however, many open questions about how the close surroundings of supermassive black holes affect large-scale structure and vice versa.
Shortly after the James Webb Space Telescope launched into space, the IR 2022 conference convened to identify and explore synergies between ground-based and space-based infrared observations.
As the population of Earth’s orbital environment and human exploration of space intensifies, it is critical to have a strong ethical framework in place so that mistakes of the past are learned from and not repeated.
The impact of astronomy on the Earth’s climate is being increasingly discussed, not least in Chile, home to many astronomical observatories, during the seventeenth annual meeting of the Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS) in January 2022.
Gravitational-wave science is rapidly growing in maturity as a research area; in May 2021 the next generation of gravitational-wave scientists gathered together to create a vision of the future of the field.
The latest iteration of the Science at Low Frequencies conference took place online over 6–9 December 2021. More than 400 attendees registered to hear about topics ranging from the Earth’s ionosphere to the Epoch of Reionization.
A multi-disciplinary team recently came together online to discuss the application of sonification in astronomy, focusing on the effective use of sound for scientific discovery and for improving accessibility to astronomy research and education.
The annual Fast Radio Bursts conference was again held entirely online this year, from 28 July to 5 August 2021. It included plenary talks, posters, lightning talks, late-breaking news and discussion sessions.
Held in Suzhou, Jiangsu province of China in June 2021, the conference served to unite a wide community of planetary science within China, and hopes to become one of the world’s premier planetary science conferences in the future.
The European Astronomical Society awarded its most prestigious prizes during its annual meeting held from 28 June to 2 July 2021. In a way similar to last year, the meeting was entirely virtual.
By focusing on the topic of stellar dynamics and stellar populations of the Milky Way and its siblings, a recent virtual meeting aimed at connecting both fields, each of which brings unique perspectives to understanding how disk galaxies form and evolve.
The European Astronomical Society awarded its most prestigious prizes during its annual meeting held from 29 June to 3 July 2020. The meeting was entirely virtual and the largest such gathering of astrophysicists so far.
