As the fiscal year’s end looms Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation has awarded significantly fewer grants than usual, and a judge has ordered an update from the Institute of Education Sciences o...

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The AAS announces its call for applications for the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectures Program. We are seeking astronomers and host institutions to participate in 2027!

Thirteen former leaders of the National Science Foundation are asking the Senate and the Trump administration to install leaders for the agency, after its director resigned more than a year ago and th...

The Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is a division of AAS. We focus on issues relevant to women in the fields of astronomy and physics.

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination

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