Astronomy, Space & Time

Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologists everyday conversa...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...

This book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a com...

Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle...

This book offers an excellent introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology. It is designed to serve as a self-contained text for graduate and a...

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroi...

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations. In Part I, it reviews the basic equations for...

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing tog...

Foundations of Astrophysics provides a contemporary and complete introduction to astrophysics for astronomy and physics majors. With a logical pres...

This book reviews the scientific objectives and the instrumentation of the space mission BepiColombo. BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA an...

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galileis engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemys second-century scientific work on...

Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy provides the largest published collection of quotations pertaining to phys...

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger th...