Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2026 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year’s eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known.
Articles for the 2026 edition include:
- Recent Advances in Astronomy by Rod Hine
- Recent Advances in Solar System Exploration by Peter Rea
- Anniversaries in 2026 by Neil Haggath
- The Astronomers’ Stars: Taking It to Extremes by Lynne Marie Stockman
- Hawking Stars by Andrew D. Santarelli and Matthew E. Caplan
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Professor A. S. Eddington by David M. Harland
- Planetary Protection: Keeping the Planets Safe from Earthly Bacteria by Peter Rea
- Nearby Worlds Out There: The Many Kinds of Exoplanet by John McCue
- Comets and Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Randall Stevenson
- On the Origin of NASA Names by Means of Imaginative Selection by Peter Rea
- Mission to Mars: Countdown to Building a Brave New World: Pausing for Thought by Martin Braddock
- A History of Observatory Designs: The Telescope Age from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries by Katrin Raynor
- Sidewalk Astronomy: Cosmos to Kerbside by Jonathan Powell
This iconic publication made its first appearance way back in 1962, shortly after the dawning of the Space Age. Now well into its seventh decade of production, the Yearbook continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy and who has a desire to extend their knowledge of the Universe and the wonders to which it plays host. The Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the bookshelf of all stargazers and watchers of the skies.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2026 was released on 4 August 2025. It can be ordered directly from the publisher Pen & Sword Books Limited. Readers in the United States and Canada should order their copies from Casemate IPM. It is also available at Amazon and at other online book retailers.