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Posted on 5/27/2026 Press Release: The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded for ground-breaking studies on stellar explosions and the origin of elements.
Posted on 5/19/2026 Press Release: The 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize honors Alexei V. Filippenko, Ken'ichi Nomoto, and Stanford Woosley for their decades-long studies of supernovae.
Posted on 12/17/2025 The IAU is pleased to announce The Kavli Foundation has agreed to fund $82,000 in continuation of their support of a Global Coordination Workshop in 2026 and the Young Astronomers Lunch at the IAU General Assembly in Rome from 10-19 August 2027.
Posted on 10/31/2025 The Shaw Prize announced a very generous sponsorship of HKD $1 million to help support the APRIM2026 conference (4-8 May 2026, Hong Kong) and fund astronomy research in the Asia-Pacific region.
Posted on 5/27/2025 The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2025 is awarded in equal shares to John Richard Bond and George Efstathiou for their pioneering research in cosmology, in particular for their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
Posted on 5/14/2025 The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize recognizes Ryan Cooke and Max Pettini both for their determination of a key value in the composition of the universe moments after it came into existence.
Posted on 6/11/2024 Press Release: The 2024 set of prizes goes to Saran Poshyachinda (Outreach), Central American-Caribbean Bridge in Astrophysics (Development), Linda Strubbe and Bonaventure Okere (Education)
Posted on 10/31/2023 Press Release: IAU’s flagship event to take place in Africa for the first time
Posted on 6/7/2023 Press Release: The NameExoWorlds global contest names the next set of exoplanets and host stars
Posted on 5/30/2023 Press Release: Prestigious award is given for the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs).
Posted on 4/17/2023 Press Release: Richard Ellis Receives $500 000 Gruber Cosmology Prize
Posted on 2/16/2023 Press Release: Unique feature of the Moon to be named in honour of trailblazing mathematician Melba Roy Mouton
Posted on 6/9/2022 Press Release: The first round of prizes will be presented at the IAU XXXI General Assembly in August 2022
Posted on 4/14/2021 Following the first international comparative list of astronomical terms in sign languages, published in December 2017
Posted on 12/7/2017 The first international comparative list of astronomical words in sign language
