2018

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 an easy-to-understand, user-friendly style that's perfect for astronomers at any level.

How are so many exoplanets detected via transits, while transits of Mercury and Venus are so rare? Do all the chance transit alignments fit statistically?

The 10 biggest things in astronomy

The Red Planet revealed

A lunar Stonehenge

Science, Solar System

The processed images from Juno are spectacular, but they don’t resemble previous images of Jupiter. Why are they so different from those returned by earlier missions?

Mars closes in

The return of the Red Planet

Shoot the Sun, Moon, and planets

Telescopes and Equipment

We test Sigma’s 20mm lens

When does a star’s size violate the laws of physics?

Scorpion treasures

What produces the radio waves from a pulsar, and why do they form beams?