With this issue, Astronomy celebrates its 50th anniversary. I bought the first issue of the magazine from a newsstand in Columbus, Ohio. While the stories eventually drew my interest, I was more ...

Astronomy & Physics (A&P) majors gain broad knowledge of the principles of astronomy and physics, including planets in the solar system, stars and star formation, the nature of the interstellar medium ...

On May 27, 1973, a young journalist named Stephen Walther filed incorporation papers to begin publishing Astronomy magazine. The first issue was August 1973; by 1981, it was the largest-circulation ...