• Samuel Grant, David Jess, Peter Keys, Scott Houston & Rebecca Hewitt show in new paper how the Sun's atmosphere is heated
• UKRI STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy for New Research Students - at Queen's beginning 27th August
• Queen’s researchers Prof. Stephen Smartt and Dr. David Jess honoured by the Royal Astronomical Society

• The icy nature of the first interstellar object 'Oumuamua is revealed by ARC astronomers
• Michele Bannister elected to serve on the AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Committee
• Queen's astronomers engage in solar eclipse experiment and scientific outreach
• The first electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational wave source has been found, a kilonova associated with GW170817, read more here.
• Queen’s astronomer and international experts make major exoplanet discovery
• Michele Bannister interviewed by the BBC Sky at Night about TNOs
• Alan Fitzsimmons talks to Brian Cox and others on Asteroid Day 2017
• Adaptive Optics resolved images of asteroid 6 Hebe by Michael Marsset & team are the ESO Picture of the Week.
• Cloudy Workshop 2017 delivered by Prof Gary Ferland of the University of Kentucky, the creator of Cloudy.
• Three asteroids named after ARC astronomers
• New paper led by Wes Fraser demonstrates that Neptune's migration was calm and smooth
• Prof Alan Fitzsimmons is filmed comet hunting with the Isaac Newton Telescope by the BBC Sky at Night team
• New paper led by Anders Jerkstrand peers deep into superluminous explosions
• Cosimo Inserra wins the 2017 Royal Astronomical Society's Winton Capital award
• Largest digital survey of the visible Universe : The Pan-STARRS1 data are publicly released
• PESSTO's view of ASASSN-15lh - spinning black hole swallows star and a news article from the BBC is linked here
• Nature Astronomy is launched and ARC co-authors two of the first three papers in the early release

• David Armstrong and Ernst de Mooij find weather on faraway gas giant
• RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, 'The Golden Age of Extragalactic Optical Transient Surveys', held March 10th 2017 at the RAS, London
• A team of QUB scientists led by Dr. Cosimo Inserra unveil the shape of the brightest supernovae
• Four-week MIAPP programme, 'The Physics of Supernovae' organised by ARC astronomer, Dr. Kate Maguire

* Perfect day for Mercury transit and Michael West lecture at Queen's

• QUB will play a leading role in the UK consortium that has joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• The May 2016 Michael West Lecture, "Einstein's Gravity: from the transit of Mercury to the detection of gravitational waves", was delivered by Prof. Patrick Brady. See here for details
• 2016 Transit of Mercury. On May 9th ARC hosted public viewings of the transit of Mercury as part of the Mercury and Einstein's Gravity Event. See here for details
• Fermilab's symmetry magazine on LIGO follow-up, in conversation with Prof Smartt
• Black holes from LIGO : how did they form and can we spot them
• Pan-STARRS and PESSTO on the hunt for source of gravitational waves
• LIGO detects gravitational waves. Initial comments from ARC staff in The Conversation
• 2016-07-08 - ARC Astronomers describe ESA Rosetta findings at Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2016
• Dr Heather Cegla at the 2016 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
• 2016-06-15 - First Detection of Methyl Alcohol in a Planet-forming Disc's
• 2016-05-09 - Perfect day for Mercury transit and Michael West lecture at Queen's
• QUB will play a leading role in the UK consortium that has joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• 2016-05-09 - The May 2016 Michael West Lecture, "Einstein's Gravity: from the transit of Mercury to the detection of gravitational waves", was delivered by Prof. Patrick Brady. See here for details and registration
• 2016-05-05 - Fermilab's symmetry magazine on LIGO follow-up, in conversation with Prof Smartt
• 2016-02-16 - Black holes from LIGO : how did they form and can we spot them
• 2016-02-12 - Pan-STARRS and PESSTO on the hunt for source of gravitational waves
• 2016-02-11 - LIGO detects gravitational waves. Initial comments from ARC staff in The Conversation
• 2016-01-14 - 100 years and counting: women in the RAS: Dr Kate Maguire in selection of top UK female astronomers, celebrating 100 years of female fellows of the RAS Full selection of portraits here.

• 2015-12-29 - ARC Astronomer investigates the Star of Bethlehem in BBC Christmas special
• 2015-12-18 - Queen’s researchers in starlight discovery to solve missing water mystery
• 2015-11-30 - "Through the elliptical haze" - Hubble's picture of the week taken by Stephen Smartt
• 2015-11-17 - Nature Physics paper reports leap forward in predicting solar flares
• 2015-11-11 - ARC welcomes two new Royal Society and STFC fellows - Neale Gibson and Kate Maguire
• 2015-10-28 - Queen’s astronomer updates what Rosetta's comet is doing
• 2015-09-11 - Queen’s hosts Summer School for astrophysics graduate students
• 2015-08-27 - Michael West Lecture - Exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life.
• 2015-06-26 - The Royal Irish Academy 2015 McCrea Lecture - Are Comets the Givers and Takers of Life?
• 2015-06-14 - Alan Fitzsimmons hails Philae's reconnection
• 2015-05-12 - Cloudy mornings and hot afternoons: Tracking weather on alien worlds
• 2015-04-15 - Introductory STFC Summer School - Atomic processes and spectral modelling in astrophysics
• 2015-03-20 - Solar Eclipse, Jupiter watch and Stargazing live at Queen's|
• 2015-03-12 - ARC young scientist strikes Silver for physics display in Parliament
• 2015-03-06 - The fastest unbound star in our Galaxy ejected by a thermonuclear supernova
• 2015-03-03 - ARC's Chris Watson stars in BBC Horizon's "Secrets of the Solar System"
• 2015-02-10 - ARC plays leading role in construction of the world's biggest solar telescope
• 2015-01-19 - ARC hosts international Winter School for research students
• 2015-01-14 - NGTS planet hunter achieves first light - ESO release

• 2014-12-01 - Queen's scientist leads study of 'Super-Earth'
• 2014-09-26 - ARC student named amongst brightest and most innovative in the world
• 2014-08-20 - Queen's and NASA join forces in major international investigation into solar flares
• 2014-07-11 - Announcement of a free Public Lecture in collaboration with Ulster Museum
• 2014-02-06 - ARC astronomers help measure internal structure of Near-Earth Asteroid
• 2014-01-28 - Cloudy Summer School 2014 to be held at QUB
• 2014-01-08 - ARC's Ryan Milligan - The truck driver turned NASA astrophysicist

• 2013-11-22 - Queen's astronomer in 'starring' role in BBC Horizon programme
• 2013-10-30 - ARC astronomers measure new Earth-sized planet which should not exist
• 2013-10-17 - New lecturer Dr. Markus Janson takes image of a planet around a sun like star
• 2013-10-17 - ARC scientists shed new light on star death
• 2013-06-27 - Pedro Lacerda to feature in Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition on Ice Worlds
• 2013-05-31 - "It's a big one…" Prof Fitzsimmons talks to the BBC as Asteroid 1998 QE2 flies past Earth
• 2013-05-20 - QUB Astronomer provides ESO Picture of the Week
• 2012-04-03 - ARC member dines with the Vice-Chancellor at Benefactor's lunch
• 2013-03-11 - Queen's discovered comet visible in UK and Irish skies
• 2013-03-04 - Queen's astronomer offers insight into Russian meteor strike in BBC Horizon special
• 2013-02-15 - ARC staff talk to local and national news about today's meteor and asteroid events
• 2013-01-23 - ARC's Ryan Milligan talks to the Irish Daily Star about his role with NASA
• 2013-01-22 - "Experience the Universe" - sixth-formers on work placements experience science in action
• 2013-01-20 - Public invited to join Queen's astronomers for Jupiter Watch

• 2012-12-12 - Astronomy STEPS at local primary school
• 2012-12-01 - QUB astronomers talk to schools at W5
• 2012-11-14 - Professor Smartt honoured with Taiwan lectureship award
• 2012-10-05 - Join us for a day of family fun at Armagh Planetarium
• 2012-09-18 - Rubina Kotak Joins E-ELT Project Science Team
• 2012-09-03 - ARC Director presents invited talk at ESO@50
• 2012-05-04 - Published in Nature : Pan-STARRS discovers star shredded by supermassive black hole
• 2012-05 - Royal Irish Academy honours leading Queen's Scholars
• 2012-04 - PESSTO survey kicks off its public supernova survey
• 2012-04 - Drummer, trucker, and ARC Solar Physicist Ryan Milligan speaks to the Irish Times
• 2012-04 - Lasertag W5: Planet Quest
• 2012-04 - ARC astronomers find progenitor of nearby supernova in M95
• 2012-03-07 - Prof Smartt to lead E2.3M hunt for Universe's first exploding star
• 2012-02-24 - NEOShield project starts assessing Earth defence
• 2012-02-01 - PhD student awarded prestigious grant

• 2011-12-05 - ARC Astronomer Philip Dufton finds fastest rotating star in the LMC (ESO release)
• 2011-11-22 - ISS flyby over Queen's
• 2011-11-14 - ARC astronomer Justyn R. Maund awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship
• 2011-11-08 - Prof. Fitzsimmons talks to BBC about the giant asteroid fly-by on 8th November
• 2011-10-10 - Queens hails Nobel prizewinning partners
• 2011-07-01 - The Michael West Lectures, a new series of public lectures in astronomy at QUB
• 2011-06-22 - Prof. Smartt talks to Natasha Sayee from BBC Radio Ulster's What's Next programme
• 2011-05-27 - 365 Days of Astronomy – Pan-STARRScast
• 2011-02-23 - ARC PhD student Matt McCrum blogs about working with PS1
• 2011-02-14 - ARC joins HARPS-N search for earth-like planets

• 2010-12-09 - Diamonds abundant on WASP-12b (BBC News link)
• 2010-11-05 - ARC Astronomer on BBC's "The Sky At Night"
• 2010-10-26 - Asteroid collision revealed by Queen’s astronomers
• 2010-08-04 - Seeing a Stellar Explosion in 3D
• 2010-06-25 - RISE2 Commissioned at Aristarchos Telescope in Greece
• 2010-06-22 - A stomy time for the Sun
• 2010-06-17 - PanSTARRS survey begins full operations
• 2010-02-24 - FP7 Grant in Astrochemical Surface Science Awarded
• 2010-02-19 - Queens Astronomers to work at YORP speed
• 2010-01-08 - SuperWASP team awarded RAS Group Achievement Award for Astronomy
• 2010-01-06 - ARC hosts meeting on "Next Generation Sky Surveys : The Transient Sky"

• 2009-12-18 - ARC Solar Physicist awarded RAS Keith Runcorn Prize for thesis
• 2009-10-14 - Queens Astronomers Framed
• 2009-06-22 - ARC hosts PLATO science meeting
• 2009-06-12 - ARC astronomers propose new supernovae interpretation
• 2009-05-26 - ARC hosts Regent House school pupils for physics podcast
• 2009-04-06 - New 'stars' join ARC
• 2009-03-25 - ARC astronomers observe asteroid before it crashes into Earth
• 2009-03-20 - Scientists find giant solar twists
• 2009-03-20 - Disappearing stars confirm supernova progenitors