AAS Press Releases

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.

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, will receive the 2022 Lancelot M...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) supports the Astro2020 decadal survey report that was released today in a public briefing webinar by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

The full set of working-group reports has been released following the Satellite Constellations 2 conference to address the ongoing transformation of the night sky.

A report from SATCON2 describes how a concerted, well-funded, collaborative effort is needed to address the ongoing transformation of the night sky.