SUNSET: 
Cassini's Take on Saturn's Rings
Images by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal the wondrous Saturn system in fantastic detail, providing fodder for detailed simulations of what's afoot in the rings.
Caves on the Moon and Mars
As Robert Zimmerman’s cover story of the April 2013 issue explains, Earth is not the only world in the inner solar system with caves. The same volcanic processes that created some of Earth’s caves also occurred on the Moon and Mars. Using imagery from a variety of orbiters, geologists have…
Sky & Telescope March 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Cosmic Extremes The universe is faster, colder, and wackier than anything we can possibly comprehend. By Bryan Gaensler Where Goes the Rain? Saturn's moon Titan has a mysterious weather cycle. By Donald F. Robertson Revitalize Your Club Meetings Webinars can add variety and depth to your club gatherings…
How to Get involved in Amateur Research
Backyard astronomers will continue to be essential to the research community — here are some ways you can participate.
Sky & Telescope February 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Secrets of the Northern Lights After centuries spent marveling at auroras' spectacular and fearsome displays, people have solved many of their mysteries.By Pål Brekke The Moon and the Mystery of the Hunley The Moon and tides played major roles in the successful attack and disappearance of the Confederate…
Lifting Titan's Veil
Fall with the Huygens probe through Titan's atmosphere and see extra images connected with our March 2013 article on Titan's weather.
Sky & Telescope Errata: 2013
This article lists all known errors in issues of Sky & Telescope for 2013.
Sky & Telescope January 2013
FEATURED ARTICLES Curiosity Hits the Road The newest, most capable, and most expensive rover ever launched is just beginning its two-year exploration of Mars and the planet's suitability for life.By J. Kelly Beatty Dark Matter in the Discovery Age Using a variety of experiments, scientists may be on the verge…
Detecting Dark Matter
Dark matter was discovered 80 years ago when astronomer Fritz Zwicky spied a galaxy cluster whirling so fast, the galaxies were bound to fly apart unless something — something less luminous than ordinary stars or gas — held them together. Decades later, the scientific community concedes the existence of dark…
Sky & Telescope December 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Cosmic Collisions Astronomers seek direct observational evidence for multiple universes.By Camille M. Carlisle Why Do Asteroids Come in Pairs? A surprisingly large fraction of small bodies come in binaries and triplets.By Michael Shepard Changing Times for U.S. Astronomy The budgetary writing is on the wall for national observatories.By…
Asteroid Moons
In the past decade, new observations have shown that asteroids are no longer the solitary, dense, potato-shaped rocks we thought them to be, orbiting the Sun unchanged eon after eon. The December issue of S&T describes the latest research that paints a different picture. Asteroids, it turns out, are porous…
Sky & Telescope November 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Touchdown on the Red Planet Curiosity's spectacular landing paves the way for new discoveries about Mars's ability to support life.By Emily Lakdawalla From Handel to Hydra: Naming Planets, Moons & Craters "Naming a thing is man's nearest approach to creating it." -- Percival LowellBy Rosaly Lopes The Evolving…
Mapping Eclipses
In the November issue of Sky & Telescope, Michael Zeiler writes about the history of eclipse maps. Even as long ago as 1715, astronomer Edmond Halley was able to calculate an eclipse map that was accurate to within 3 km. Now Michael Zeiler's eclipse maps have unprecedented accuracy, and the…
Sky & Telescope October 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES A Glorious Transit of Venus Millions of people saw June's transit of Venus, but for research astronomers, it was a golden opportunity to advance science.By Jay M. Pasachoff The Great Galactic Travelers New observations suggest that the Magellanic Clouds - for decades considered satellites of the Milky Way…
Making the Magellanic Clouds
Milky Way and its two dwarf neighbors, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, shine in a dark night sky. The brief interloper Comet Lovejoy graces the image on its way out of the solar system.S&T Photo Gallery: Luis Argerich Our Milky Way Galaxy has more than a dozen known satellite…
Shooting the Transit of Venus
The cover story of S&T's October issue follows the scientists who observed the historic transit of Venus and their efforts to leave a complete record for future observers of Venus's next transit in 2117. Author Jay Pasachoff led a team that traveled to the Haleakala summit in Hawaii to capture…
Sky & Telescope September 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES New Meteor Showers Discovered As Earth circles the Sun, it crosses a rich, changing tangle of meteoroid streams. Help us map them with amateur video.By Peter Jenniskens Nature's Wrath The solar system's wild weather can make Earth's extremes seem serene.By David Baker & Todd Ratcliff Protoplanet Close-up Dawn…
Vesta Close-Ups
These images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft detail the surface of Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in our solar system and a subject of discussion in the September issue of Sky & Telescope. And if you scroll all the way down, you're in for a treat! For more information, visit NASA's homepage…
Sky & Telescope August 2012
FEATURED ARTICLES Pictures of a Baby Solar System Astronomers have found a young version of the Sun surrounded by a solar system analog in the making.By Thayne M. Currie & Carol A. Grady Houston, We Have a Problem Sometimes the most famous words are those never spoken.By Dave English Solve…
The Herschel Project
“Uncle Rod” chats with S&T editor in chief Robert Naeye about how he conducted the Herschel Project and whether it’s possible for experienced amateurs to “run out” of deep-sky objects to observe.
