AAS Press Releases
Recent press releases issued by the American Astronomical Society. (If you're looking for press releases from other organizations, see Astronomy in the News.)
AAS Names 22 New Fellows for 2023
8 Feb 2023
The American Astronomical Society is honoring 22 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows. Congratulations to the Class of 2023!
AAS Names Recipients of 2023 Awards & Prizes
23 Jan 2023
The AAS has announced the recipients of its 2023 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.
Gaia Collaboration to Receive 2023 Berkeley Prize
9 Nov 2022
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...
Two Solar Eclipses Are Coming to America
14 Oct 2022
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!
AAS Names Jane Rigby as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 241st Meeting
6 Oct 2022
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.
AAS Names Additional Recipients of 2022 Awards & Prizes
31 May 2022
The AAS has announced the recipients of the remainder of its 2022 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.
AIP Report: Harassment, Discrimination in Astronomy Takes Many Forms
29 Mar 2022
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...
Thousands of New Astronomical Images Highlighted in Latest Release of AAS WorldWide Telescope
15 Feb 2022
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...
New Tool Launches for Astronomy Software Users
9 Feb 2022
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...
AAS Names Recipients of 2022 Awards & Prizes
2 Feb 2022
The AAS has announced the recipients of some of its 2022 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.
AAS Names 23 New Fellows for 2022
5 Jan 2022
The American Astronomical Society is honoring 23 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows. Congratulations to the Class of 2022!
AAS Names Jane Greaves as Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer for 239th Meeting
24 Nov 2021
At AAS 239 in January 2022, the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture will be given by Jane Greaves on the unexpected discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus and its implications for the possibility of life.
CHIME Fast Radio Burst Team to Receive 2022 Berkeley Prize
16 Nov 2021
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...
American Astronomical Society Supports Astro2020 Decadal Survey
5 Nov 2021
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.
SATCON2 Working Group Reports Released
29 Oct 2021
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.