Publishing new articles every weekday, Aeon describes itself as a publication which "asks the biggest questions and finds the freshest, most original answers, provided by world-leading authorities on science, philosophy and society.

The most notable of these is the In Sight series, which features interviews and discussions with leading philosophers, scientists, thinkers and writers.

Several of Aeon's exclusives have been chosen as Vimeo Staff Picks, including Dramatic and Mild, American Renaissance, Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to Heaven, Cutting Loose, Glas, and World Fair.

[8] Contributors have been a wide array of academics, journalists, and science writers, including: Editorial director Brigid Hains won the Australasian Association of Philosophy's Media Professionals' Award in 2018.

Rebecca Boyle's essay "The end of night" was featured in the anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, under the title "The Health Effects of a World without Darkness".