The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science.
![[Beyond] Undergraduate astronomy degrees vary widely. Here’s what could be done to fix that.](https://astrobites.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-17-at-16.40.06-320x260.png)
A survey of physics and astronomy departments across the country has shown that degrees in astronomy can be pretty different. Read more about the AAS SURGE committee’s findings and recommendations!
Today’s paper tests some recent claims that there is a bias in cosmological distance measurements!
Today we interview Dr. Maura McLaughlin, who is a professor at West Virginia
University and one of this year’s #AAS247 Plenary speakers!
Studying dwarf galaxies provides unique insights to galaxy evolution. Today’s paper explores how resolving stellar populations of isolated galaxies allows us to determine their star formation history!