AAS Press Releases

At our June 2024 meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, the Kavli lecture will be given by Rachel Bezanson, an astronomer at the University of Pittsburgh and Co-Principal Investigator of the UNCOVER JWST program.

In celebration of the work that the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Solar Eclipse Task Force has been doing for the past decade to prepare for the North American solar eclipses of 21 August 2017, 14 October 2023, and...

Looking to share more about the upcoming 2024 eclipse across North America than the standard what, when, and where of how to observe it? A new collection from the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS) pull...

With just four weeks to go until the April 8th North American total solar eclipse, consumer interest in eclipse glasses and other solar viewers is beginning to spike. Some sellers are making misleading claims about their...

The American Astronomical Society is honoring 21 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows. Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

The AAS has announced the recipients of its 2024 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.

Wen-fai Fong of Northwestern University will receive the 2024 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy for her work advancing our understanding of explosive astrophysical...

AAS and Big Kid Science have released version 3.0 of the Totality app, your solar eclipse companion, available free for iOS and Android smartphones.

At our January 2024 meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Kavli lecture will be given by Stephen Taylor, an astrophysicist at Vanderbilt University and Chair of the NANOGrav Collaboration.

At our June 2023 meeting in Albuquerque, the Kavli lecture will be given by Daniel Scolnic of Duke University on the work of the Pantheon+SH0ES teams, which have made the leading measurements of the current expansion...

On Monday, 8 April 2024, the Moon will pass directly between Earth and the Sun, creating a total solar eclipse like the one that crossed the United States on 21 August 2017. At T minus 1 year, the countdown has begun!

The American Astronomical Society is honoring 22 members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows. Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

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!