Astronomy

The world's best-selling astronomy magazine offers you the most exciting, visually stunning, and timely coverage of the heavens above. Each monthly issue includes expert science reporting, vivid color photography, complete sky coverage, spot-on observing tips, informative telescope reviews, and much more! All this in a user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

Sustaining space

Astro Letters

Stellar sculpture • JWST reveals young stars shaping their environment.

Hot Bytes

A black hole before its galaxy? • A monster black hole in the early universe outweighs its home galaxy, prompting a rethink of how some early black holes formed.

Quick Takes

Euclid’s quasar census

AI CRATERS UNDER SCRUTINY

Tianwen-2 arrives at Kamo'oalewa

Our increasingly cluttered skies • As Earth’s orbital space becomes ever more crowded, collisions and debris threaten not only commercial assets and astronauts’ lives, but also safety and property on the ground.

What satellites leave behind • Metals from reentering objects are accumulating in the stratosphere in what amounts to an uncontrolled geoengineering experiment.

Mars and Jupiter meet • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

Rising Moon • Punched, flooded, sprayed, and strafed

Meteor Watch • Leo gets busy

Star Dome: November 2026

Paths of the Planets: November 2026 • This map unfolds the entire night sky from sunset (at right) until sunrise (at left). Arrows and colored dots show motions and locations of solar system objects during the month.

Comet Search • Part of the crowd

Locating Asteroids • Whale watching

Phaethon's fiery folly

Can robots save Earth orbit? • For decades, satellites have been designed to be discarded. Robotic servicers have the potential to change that, but they may need a push from human regulators.

Uncovering star clusters in other galaxies • Extragalactic globulars are hiding in your images. Here’s how to find them.

The amazing Crab Nebula • This supernova remnant may not be much to visually look at, but holds immense interest nonetheless.

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Ask Astro • Astronomy’s experts from around the globe answer your cosmic questions.

Reader Gallery

So close and yet so far

January 2027: Venus reigns before dawn

Star Dome: January 2027

Astronomy