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On 28 June, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2023 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies bill on a 31 to 24 vote. This bill is important to AAS members because this legislation funds...

Are you — or do you know — a Black undergraduate pursuing a degree in astronomy or physics? Apply now for the TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program, which awards up to $10,000 per student per school year to reduce the...

The Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024–2033 is calling for white papers, due 24 August 2022.

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 blog article for the AAS Education Committee, Lindsay House describes Dark Energy Explorers, an online citizen science project working to understand the mystery of Dark Energy while simultaneously bringing...

Apply now to the AAS Education & Professional Development Mini-Grant Program! Funds will support education and professional development activities for AAS members. Proposals are due 19 August 2022.

In this policy blog post, we take a look at the first congressional appropriations numbers for FY2023, which start with the House. The initial bill release includes top line numbers that give us a sense of what might...

Astrobites has published summaries of many of the plenary talks and press briefings from throughout the 240th AAS meeting. You can also read them on AAS Nova.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Michael E. Marotta writes about Riccardo Giacconi and the beginnings of X-ray astronomy.

In this AAS Education Committee blog post, we give advice on how AAS members can get involved in the education-related activities of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force in preparation for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses....

With AAS 240 just 10 days away, the Public Policy Team is looking forward to returning for our first in-person meeting in two years. This meeting promises to be jam-packed with amazing science content and happy reunions...

The American Astronomical Society will work with the American Institute of Physics and other key societies on a newly funded initiative to decrease underrepresentation of undergraduate African Americans in physics and...

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

This newly formed task force is charged with identifying ways to reduce the carbon footprint associated with AAS activities as called for by the Strategic Plan for 2021–2026.

AAS members Conny Aerts and Roger Ulrich join Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard in sharing the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in developing the fields of helio- and asteroseismology to study the interiors of stars...