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AAS member and Nobel Prize Laureate Adam Riess describes his experience giving a speech to Congress at a recent event at the Capitol, "A Science Fair of Canceled Grants."

Detailed budget requests for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were released on 10 July. Here we break down the impacts on astronomical science...

Thamarie Pinnaduwage, a high school senior from Northern Virginia, shares her experiences shadowing the AAS public policy team for two weeks.

NASA leadership is working on agency reorganization plans and motivating more employees to voluntarily resign. The One Big Beautiful Bill was passed. The Senate is scheduled to mark up their spending bill this week.

AAS Nova provides highlights of recent articles from AJ, ApJ, ApJ Letters, ApJ Supplements, PSJ, and RNAAS to inform you about discoveries you might otherwise overlook.

In this Education Committee Blog post, Alexander Cotnoir describes ViewSpace’s new Image Tours, developed by NASA’s Universe of Learning team, which help guide learners through the science behind each image.

Here we outline the key difference between the reconciliation process, which deals with mandatory spending and taxes, and the appropriations process, which determines the funding levels for discretionary programs.

Hundreds of snapshots from the June 2025 AAS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, have been posted in our online gallery.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The July 2025 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and is also available online.

The AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) invites nominations for its 2026 awards: the Laboratory Astrophysics Prize, the Early Career Award, and the new Mid-Career Award. New Deadline: 1 August.

The AAS journals video series, produced by Deputy Editor in Chief Frank Timmes, now includes more than 500 video interviews with AAS journal authors.

The American Astronomical Society's peer-reviewed journals remain among the highest-ranked publications in the astronomical sciences according to several key metrics, including impact factor.

In this Education Committee Blog post, committee members Joshua Tan and Colin Wallace describe how to use internet archives to preserve valuable resources for astronomy education.