Join the AAS Press List

Via the AAS Press List, which all qualified science writers may join for free, the American Astronomical Society distributes our own press releases and those from our six topical Divisions, including media advisories for upcoming meetings, policy statements from our leadership, news of Society and Division prizes being awarded, and press releases from Sky & Telescope magazine, which the AAS publishes.

The AAS Press List numbers more than 2,300 science writers worldwide with astronomy and space science on their beat. The list is not available for rental, nor is it shared with third parties without the express permission of list members.

To join the AAS Press List, or to change the email address to which you'd like us to send our announcements, please fill out our sign-up form:

Join the AAS Press List

Eligibility for the AAS Press List

Individuals may join the AAS Press List at the discretion of the AAS Press Officer, who will check their credentials. Recipients should supply a clearly personal address, like [email protected]; we prefer not to mail press releases to generic addresses like [email protected]. We prefer institutional (work) addresses or National Association of Science Writers (NASW) addresses when available but will also accept Gmail, Yahoo, and similar addresses. Again, we prefer that these be personal, not generic.

The following are examples of who may subscribe to the AAS Press List:

  • Journalists who are employed by bona fide media organizations;
  • Freelance science writers/editors/producers, including documentary filmmakers, internet science communicators, and content producers for museum or planetarium news services;
  • Journalism professors, students, and interns.
  • Public information officers of recognized scientific societies, educational institutions, government agencies, and ground- or space-based observatories;
  • AAS members and other scientists who communicate with the public but whose primary occupation is scientific research and/or education rather than science journalism;
  • Astronomy book authors, editors, and publishers.

Except as noted above, the following may not subscribe to the AAS Press List: scientists, educators, students, editors of scientific journals, advertising or marketing professionals, and representatives of for-profit corporations, special-interest or advocacy groups, and the management or business side of scientific societies, educational institutions, government agencies, or media organizations. Such individuals can instead follow the AAS Press Office (@AAS_Press) on Twitter, where we tweet the headlines and URLs of press releases and, occasionally, news articles; we also post headlines and links to many press releases in the Astronomy in the News section of our website.

You may unsubscribe from the AAS Press List at any time by replying to that effect to any press release we forward to you.

Press Releases

Press releases are sent without embedded images or attachments and include web addresses where you can find images, illustrations, animations, and/or other resources. We also distribute links to astronomy-related press releases (not just ours, but others' too) via our Twitter account @AAS_Press and post them to the Astronomy in the News section of our website.

Attention PIOs: To make sure your press releases are included in Astronomy in the News and/or tweeted by @AAS_Press, please send them to [email protected]. Linking to another organization's press release does not imply endorsement of the contents by the American Astronomical Society.