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Congress has just released the latest budget agreement for its fiscal year 2024 (FY24) funding. In this post, we take a closer look at what this budget agreement means for key NASA missions.

In a new feature, the AAS Policy Blog hosts a series of posts written by guest authors who assess our progress on decadal priorities and identify new opportunities and challenges for the coming decade. This week, Bethany...

We welcome applications to join the AAS Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy (SGMA) for a three-year term starting in June 2024. The deadline to apply is 31 March.

In this column from the AAS Historical Astronomy Division, Michael E. Marotta writes about the discovery of the 21-cm emissions of interstellar hydrogen.

AAS members curious about education research are invited to engage with the Professional Development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER) Institute's upcoming workshops, supported by the AAS Education Committee.

The AAS Solar Physics Division is awarding its 2024 George Ellery Hale Prize to Judith Lean (Naval Research Laboratory) and its 2024 Karen Harvey Prize to Kristopher Klein (University of Arizona).

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) is beginning an Innovation Call process to identify novel science mission concepts in anticipation of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) opportunity. Deadline: 10 May.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today, published by the American Institute of Physics, as a membership benefit. The March 2024 issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

The AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) is honoring Vincent Esposito for his PhD thesis at the University of Pennsylvania, The Spectroscopy, Photochemistry, and Dynamics of Atmospheric and Astronomical Molecules.

The AAS Demographics Committee will be working closely with AIP's Statistical Research Center to survey US members in 2024. Here, the Committee shares a brief overview of the 2021 Demographics Survey results.

The AAS Policy Blog will have a series of posts written by guest authors who will assess our progress on the decadal priorities and identify new opportunities and challenges for the coming decade. This week, Daniel Baker...

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.

The Special Session SS17: Light Beyond Galaxies: Chasing the Intra-Cluster Light, will be held during the European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting in Padova on 4 July.

The grace period for membership ends soon. If you don't renew by Friday, 8 March, your AAS membership will be suspended and renewals after that date will incur a $10 late fee.