Google deprecated the old RSS feed URL format December 1st 2017 (deprecation notice), in addition to that they dropped the button in the Google News interface to generate a
This options isn't valid anymore: https://news.google.com/news/rss/headlines/section/topic/{topic} produces Error 500.
This seems to work: https://news.google.com/news?cf=all&hl=en&pz=1&ned=us&q=astronomy&output=rss
The Geolocation mentioned above still works too. You can also specify city and state: https://news.google.com/news/rss/headlines/section/geo/DenverCo