Astronomy, Space & Time

Join David J. Eicher in this fast-paced and entertaining journey through the history, present, and future of these important yet mysterious cosmic ...

The study of exoplanetary atmospheres--that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system--may be our best hope for discovering life elsewh...

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discover...

The simplest guide to astronomy and stargazing!Grasping astronomy has never been easier. The awe of the night sky will soon turn into knowledge of ...

Covering the first five decades of the exploration of Mars, this atlas is the most detailed visual reference available. It brings together, for the...

In this well-illustrated text, Kenneth R. Lang explains the life cycle of stars, from the dense molecular clouds that are stellar nurseries to the ...

This accessible text on classical celestial mechanics, the principles governing the motions of bodies in the Solar System, provides a clear and con...

Drawing on exciting discoveries of the last forty years, Night Vision explores how infrared astronomy, an essential tool for modern astrophysics an...

Nietzsches doctrine of the eternal recurrence of the samethe conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequence, to infinit...

Devoted to exploring questions about the origin and evolution of life in our Universe, this highly interdisciplinary book brings together a broad a...

In this decade, the transient universe will be mapped out in great detail by the emerging wide-field multiwavelength surveys, and neutrino and grav...

The astronomical observations of William Herschel (17381822) made him question the accepted model of the clockwork universe. This volume explains t...

Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book presents the first scholarly biography of nineteenth-century English ama...

A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestsellerA Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets...

Gravitational lenses offer the best, and sometimes the only, means of tackling key problems in many fields of astrophysics and cosmology. According...

This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory per...

The advent of sensitive high-resolution observations of the cosmic microwave background radiation and their successful interpretation in terms of t...

Masers are observed at a range of scales - from comets, through star-forming clouds, to galactic nuclei - and have many astrophysical applications,...

Complete color global maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter's four large moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are compiled for the first...

Aimed at advanced undergraduates, this self-contained textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applicati...

Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theore...

Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which inter...

Covering host systems of accreting, relativistic bodies, and the high-energy phenomena associated with them, this self-contained astrophysics textb...