Astronomy, Space & Time

Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic adva...

Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that ...

Through more than fifty Koanspleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen traditionleading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader...

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of a...

A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Rev...

With this newly revised 7th edition of Universe: Solar System, Stars, and Galaxies, International Edition Mike Seeds' and Dana Backman's goal is to...

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special re...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration o...

Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, when the internet took off as a medium of scient...

We live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through land, sea, an...

These Transactions provide a record of the organisational and administrative activities of the IAU XXIX General Assembly which took place in Honolu...

Is There Life On Mars? will help you start to answer 20 of the most perplexing and fascinating questions about the universe, such as: Why do the pl...

Four centuries ago, Galileo first turned a telescope to look up at the night sky. His discoveries opened the cosmos, revealing the geometry and dyn...

Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet d...

IAU Symposium 268 presents an overview of the most recent observational and theoretical research on the formation and evolution of light elements i...

Circumstellar dust, the astronomical dust that forms around a star, provides today's researchers with important clues for understanding how the Uni...

Nearly all major planets and moons in our Solar System have been visited by spacecraft and the data they have returned has revealed the incredible ...

Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of observational cosmology, this advanced undergraduate textbook enables students to use quantit...

The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.g. the prevalence ...