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.

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Finding life in the cosmos

Astronomy

QUANTUM GRAVITY • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE THIS MONTH

‘LITTLE RED DOTS’ ARE STILL A BIG MYSTERY • These massive objects in the early universe are upending our timeline of when the first galaxies formed.

ASTRONOMY REELS UNDER TRUMP ONSLAUGHT

QUICK TAKES

Unusual spiral quasar defies theory

ALIEN COMET BELTS COME INTO FOCUS

Bennu has life’s building blocks

I spy five exoplanet hosts • Search with others and see who finds all of them first.

CAN WE DETECT ALIEN ARTIFACTS? • SETI’s senior astronomer explains how colossal artifacts could be the key to finding ET.

SCALE IT UP

WHERE ARE ALL THE ALIENS?

THE COMET OF THE YEAR • Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS treated stargazers in both hemispheres to an impressive display.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Euclid captures billions of galaxies • Europe’s new space telescope will create a 3D map of the cosmos to explore the effects of dark energy.

The Red Planet pokes the Beehive • THE SOLAR SYSTEM’S CHANGING LANDSCAPE AS IT APPEARS IN EARTH’S SKY.

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PATHS OF THE PLANETS

ECLIPSE SUCCESS ON EASTER ISLAND • This spectacular locale presented a stunning dark sky, a famous comet, and the main event — an annular eclipse.

10 WOMEN who changed astronomy • Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

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Spectacular supernovae • These stellar explosions will blow your mind.

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Messier’s 102nd object • Astronomy’s experts from around the globe answer your cosmic questions.

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BREAKTHROUGH

Mercury rules at dusk

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