1 October 2021: Applications are now open for the intake of new Individual Members and Junior Members of the IAU. The timelines for application submission, review and admission run concurrently for Individual and ...

17 September 2021: All Business Session elections and voting have been finalised for the XXXI General Assembly Business Sessions of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). We now have new names for the Special ...

3 February 2022: At a press conference today the International Astronomical Union announced the selection of the SKA Observatory (SKAO) and NSF’s NOIRLab as co-hosts of the new IAU Centre for the Protection ...

1 February 2022: The International Astronomical Union is pleased to announce the founding of four new “branch offices” of the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE). The new branches are: the OAE Center ...

1 February 2022: From 11 February to 8 March 2022, the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) will hold a series of activities to celebrate Women and Girls in Astronomy. This annual project ...

25 January 2022: The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) is pleased to announce the results of its 2021 call for proposals, through which 17 projects around the world will receive a total ...

20 January 2022: The IAU has just published the first issue of the Astronomy Education Journal (AEJ). This new online publication is produced by IAU Commission C1 Astronomy Education and Development. It aims ...

12 January 2022: In October 2021 more than 700 people from 76 countries took part in the United Nations/Spain/International Astronomical Union Conference on Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society ...

4 January 2022: The official webpage for registration and abstract submission for the XXXI IAU General Assembly (IAUGA2022) will open today, 3 January 2022. The GA2022 will be held from 2–11 August ...

17 December 2021: What should everyone who is active in astronomy education know, in order to be successful in the field? This was the theme of the 3rd Shaw–IAU Workshop on Astronomy ...

13 December 2021: The International Astronomical Union, as part of its Strategic Plan 2020–30, is reaching out to engage with amateur astronomers around the world, and invites all amateur astronomers worldwide to ...

8 December 2021: On 2 December 2021, the General Assembly of the United Nations officially declared 2022 the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) serves ...

6 December 2021: The 30th issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal is out now! This issue is a special edition with the theme “Astronomy Communication in a Time of Confinement ...

5 October 2021: What does it mean when we say someone has a solid basic knowledge of astronomy? This is the question that inspired the project Big Ideas in Astronomy: A Proposed Definition ...