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May 2026

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.
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A wide-field view of M44, the Beehive Cluster, showing a loose, sprawling grouping of bright, individually resolved stars scattered across the center of the frame. The cluster's most prominent members are large, brilliant blue-white stars, contrasted by several warm orange and golden stars interspersed among them. The cluster has no tight central concentration, spreading openly across the field with a rich background of much fainter stars visible throughout the deep black sky.
Deep-Sky Objects, Observing

Observe spring’s star clusters

A vivid aurora borealis fills the night sky with sweeping green and pink curtains of light above a snow-covered coastal hillside in the Arctic. The calm water of a fjord reflects the glow, while rounded rocks line the shoreline in the foreground and distant lights illuminate a small structure on the far shore.
Science

Uncovering the science of aurorae

Stellar nursery N159 appears in many colors in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope
Science

N159: A star-forming nebula in the spider’s shadow

An image of the Milky Way night sky taken through a modified DSLR
Astrophotography, Observing

Modifying your DSLR for astrophotography

Telescopes of the Allen Telescope Array sit beneath a starry night sky. The array is designed to listen for signals sent or generated by extraterrestrial life.
Alien Life, Features

Should we keep looking for ET?

Cosmology

Did time move slower right after the Big Bang?

Telescopes and Equipment

May we present this month’s new astronomy products

Solar System

What would Earth be like if there were no Moon?

Alien Life, Features

The search for aliens levels up

Observing

May 2026: What’s in the sky this month?

Observing

May 2026: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month?

Stars

Astronomers find the ‘Greater Pleiades Complex’

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