AAS Press Releases

Wen-fai Fong of Northwestern University will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy for her work advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical...

AAS and Big Kid Science have released version 3.0 of the Totality app, your solar eclipse companion, available free for iOS and Android smartphones.

At our January 2024 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Kavli lecture will be given by Stephen Taylor, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University and Chair of the NANOGrav Collaboration.

At our June 2023 meeting in Albuquerque, the Kavli lecture will be given by Daniel Scolnic of Duke University on the work of the Pantheon+SH0ES teams, which have made the leading measurements of the current expansion...

On Monday, 8 April 2024, the Moon will pass directly between Earth and the Sun, creating a total solar eclipse like the one that crossed the United States on 21 August 2017. At T minus 1 year, the countdown has begun!

The American Astronomical Society is honoring 22 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows. Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

The AAS has announced the recipients of its 2023 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.

The Gaia collaboration, which is responsible for the spacecraft that is currently building the largest and most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy, will receive the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community...

North America will soon be treated to two major solar eclipses: an annular ("ring of fire") eclipse on 14 October 2023 and a total solar eclipse (like the one in August 2017) on 8 April 2024. The countdown has begun!

At our January 2023 meeting in Seattle, Washington, the Kavli lecture will be given by Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Project Scientist for Operations for JWST.

The AAS has announced the recipients of the remainder of its 2022 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.

A new report from the American Institute of Physics goes beyond the numbers to examine types of harassment and discrimination experienced by members of the astronomy community over the span of a decade, highlighting the...

The latest version of AAS WorldWide Telescope, WWT 2022, has launched, revealing new data and capabilities and providing an even more powerful astronomy visualization toolkit for astronomers, educators, and enthusiasts...

The AAS, Zenodo, and the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) have launched the Asclepias portal and broker, resources that connect software tools with scientific results to make research progress in astronomy faster...

The AAS has announced the recipients of some of its 2022 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.