March 2014

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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Features

Skyjacked! NASA’s audacious plan to tow an asteroid to Earth

by
Ray Villard

Mankind’s next great leap into the cosmos may involve small steps on an asteroid captured and brought into lunar orbit.

Web Extra: Will humans journey to an asteroid?

by
Richard Talcott

Grab it, bag it, tow it, and study it — NASA’s next venture in human spaceflight will send a crew to an asteroid that the space agency previously captured and hauled to lunar orbit.

The weird world of Phoebe

by
Michael Carroll

Scientists are finding that Saturn’s strange moon isn’t like the other satellites in the solar system.

Web Extra: Learn about another Saturn moon

by
Liz Kruesi

Astronomers have dropped a probe into Titan’s atmosphere and imaged its surface to uncover an unexpected world.

Exploring the biggest asteroids

by
Sarah Scoles

The Dawn spacecraft, once orbiting Vesta, is now headed toward Ceres. These two huge asteroids may represent the missing links between space pebbles and habitable planets.

Web Extra: Dawn scientists chat about the mission

by
Sarah Scoles

Watch astronomers discuss Ceres, Vesta, and what they have learned about our solar system from visiting these two asteroids.

Comet ISON’s final hurrah

by
Richard Talcott

Although this visitor from the distant Oort Cloud did not survive its late-November brush with the Sun, it provided observers with a memorable show in the weeks before.