CSIRO to shut Cosmos magazine after 20 years

The CSIRO has announced it will stop printing popular science magazines Cosmos and Double Helix, with the national science agency blaming “the rising costs of producing print magazines.”

This comes less than year after CSIRO Publishing, the agency’s editorially independent publishing arm, took ownership of Cosmos from the Royal Institution of Australia, who had published the quarterly science news magazine since 2018.

Cosmos, which launched in 2005, will release its final print edition next month, before moving to an online-only format.