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Guest author Britt Lundgren writes about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Education and Public Outreach activities that incorporate coding and data visualization into introductory and advanced astronomy labs.

The Senate passed the US Innovation and Competitiveness Act on 8 June. Here we provide some detail about what that means for the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies supporting the astronomical sciences...

We review recent efforts by the AAS Education Committee and astronomy education researchers to determine what we are teaching in our astronomy majors courses and how, with suggestions for future work.

The latest recipient of the AAS Historical Astronomy Division's Doggett Prize has made many contributions to the history of astronomy from antiquity to the early modern period.

A special issue of the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society features 522 white papers offering input from the scientific community to inform the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032.

The Biden administration released the full President's FY 2022 Budget Request on 28 May. Here we provide some detail about the funding for NASA and other federal agencies that support the astronomical sciences.

Astro2020 co-chairs Fiona Harrison and Robert Kennicutt explain why the final report of the latest Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics will be delayed beyond June 2021.

1400 Degrees, built by the Heising-Simons Foundation, is a thriving community of scientists, academics, and funders dedicated to advancing women and marginalized genders in the fields of physics and astronomy.

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.

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

On behalf of the AAS Code of Ethics Committee, President Paula Szkody responds to recent inquiries regarding the permanent denial of authorship privileges in AAS journals for those found in violation of the Code of...

Here is a look at astronomy-related policy events on the schedule for June 2021.

The $1.2 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2021 is shared equally by Victoria M. Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of magnetars.

We ask you to fill out forms the American Mathematical Society and American Geophysical Union has made to encourage your representatives to sign on to Dear Colleague Letters in support of science. Deadlines are April 23...

The AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy will give its 2021 Dirk Brouwer Career Award to Amina Helmi (University of Groningen) and Vera Rubin Early Career Prize to Ann-Marie Madigan (University of Colorado, Boulder).