The AAS owns and operates its flagship journals, The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal Supplements, and The Planetary Science Journal through its Board of Trustees, Publications Committees, and Executive Office for the benefit of the AAS community. Since 1 January 2022, all AAS journals are fully open access.

Launched in 2017, this innovative program includes short introductory texts on fast-moving areas, graduate and upper-level undergraduate textbooks, research monographs, and practical handbooks. Authors are able to fully utilize new and ever-evolving digital publishing capabilities. Multimedia and advanced features become an integral part of these ebooks, offering an enhanced reading and research experience.

AAS Nova provides brief highlights of recently published articles from the AAS journals, The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal Supplements, and The Planetary Science Journal. Its intent is to gain broader exposure for AAS authors and to provide astronomy researchers and enthusiasts with summaries of recent, interesting research across a wide range of astronomical fields.

The Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS) is the publication for science meeting abstracts, obituaries, commentary articles about the discipline, and white papers of broad interest to our community. The second Celebrating the Wonder of Science in the Shadow special issue has been completed, featuring a total of 43 contributed pieces across nine different sections.

Research Notes of the AAS is a non-peer-reviewed, indexed and secure record of works in progress, comments, and clarifications, null results, or timely reports of observations in astronomy and astrophysics. In April 2025, it published its 2,000th Research Note. Editor Chris Lintott shares his thoughts on this milestone.

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables the seamless visualization and sharing of scientific data and stories from major telescopes, observatories, and institutions among students and researchers, through science museums and full-dome immersive planetariums, and in scholarly publications.