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.

Looking for life

Astronomy

ASTRO LETTERS

A STAR IN THE MAKING • The Webb space telescope captures a blazing newborn star early in its development.

HOT BYTES

HYBRID EXPLOSION UPENDS GAMMA-RAY SCIENCE • A recent gamma-ray burst defies categorization.

Peekaboo! A young galaxy emerges

QUICK TAKES

Megatsunami swept across ancient Mars

COSMIC CLIFF DEEP DIVE

Danger and glory • Orion’s Belt hides some blazing secrets.

Mission to Jupiter’s ICY MOONS • Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto harbor potential subsurface oceans. Soon, JUICE will show them as never before.

JOURNEY TO JUPITER

JUICE'S SCIENTIFIC PAYLOAD

THE GALILEAN MOONS

JUICE UP YOUR ROCKET!

INSIDE EUROPA

The many personalities of NASA’s MARS ROVERS • The first explorers of Mars include the rich and entitled, the bratty kids, the barnstorming aviators, and the selfie-obsessed social media sensations. (Did you think we meant humans?)

SPIRIT • 2004-11

SOJOURNER • 1997

OPPORTUNITY • 2004-18

CURIOSITY • 2012-PRESENT

PERSEVERANCE • 2021-PRESENT

INGENUITY • 2021-PRESENT

A rare hybrid eclipse • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

RISING MOON • The jagged shadow land

METEOR WATCH • Look to the Lyre

STAR DOME PATHS OF THE PLANETS • 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 • Get on the ball

LOCATING ASTEROIDS • Swing and spot

Searching for life on WATERY WORLDS • Life within extraterrestrial oceans may not only be possible, it might be flourishing.

UPCOMING ECLIPSES BY THE NUMBERS • In the next 12 months, an annular and then a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. Here’s where to see them.

SOLAR ECLIPSE ATLAS

ALL EYES ON TEXAS

REUSING YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES

ERASING STARS with AI tools • Change up your astroimaging routine with starless skyscapes.

Celestron’s 10-inch StarSense Explorer • This scope uses your smartphone to put thousands of deep-sky objects at your fingertips.

Scanning the sky • Learning about your environment will help you pick out new phenomena.

Leo’s other trio • Get the lion’s share with these three proximate galaxies.

NEW PRODUCTS

Warp speed • Astronomy’s experts from around the globe answer your cosmic questions.

Cosmic portraits

A SUPERNOVA SETS SAIL

Venus rules the evening sky

STAR DOME