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AAS member Daniel Wolf Savin seeks input for the Decadal Assessment on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science. Please share your thoughts by Friday, 14 September.

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

Help speed innovation by sharing insights across disciplines at the Citizen Science Association's annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, 13-17 March 2019. Abstract deadlines are approaching!

Three-dozen astronomers and planetary scientists urge the community to discontinue calling a possible planet beyond Pluto "Planet Nine" out of respect for the legacy of Clyde Tombaugh.

The 25-meter-diameter telescope is expected to have a final weight of about 1,600 metric tons and will comprise seven 8.4-meter mirrors supported by a steel telescope structure.

Community scientists are invited to present science investigations to be specifically conducted with Habitable Exoplanet Observatory instruments. Abstract submissions are due by 7 September 2018.

The science community is invited to play a role in the definition of Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's Observing Strategy by submitting white papers to help refine the main survey. Deadline: 30 November 2018.

About 800 researchers from the US and around the world are expected to attend DPS 50 to discuss new findings about our own solar system as well as planetary systems around other stars.

The AAS operates a press-release-distribution service that reaches more than 2,500 science writers worldwide — but only if you remember to use it!

This post covers the new Affiliate classes for amateur astronomers and alumni, and is the last in a three-part series about the changes to the Society's membership classes.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 9 August, at 3:00 pm ET to learn how IceCube works, what the researchers hope to find, and the detection of IceCube-10922.

Despite significant cuts to NASA's Planetary Science Division budget early in this decade, the agency has made impressive progress in meeting goals outlined in the 2013-2022 planetary decadal survey.

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

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The latest issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

The American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in Washington, DC, 10-14 December 2018 features numerous sessions on exoplanets. AAS members are welcome to submit abstracts.