Astronomy, Space & Time

Travelling from the edge of our Solar System, through the Milky Way and to the outer edges of the observable universe, Deep Space is a spectacular ...

Understanding the stars is the bedrock of modern astrophysics. Stars are the source of life. The chemical enrichment of our Milky Way and of the Un...

This essential book describes the mathematical formulations and subsequent computer simulations required to accurately project the trajectory of sp...

The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them.Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The...

Radiative transfer is essential for obtaining information from the spectra of astrophysical objects. This volume provides an overview of the physic...

The gas and dust between the stars emit across the electromagnetic spectrum and are found in a range of physical conditions from diffuse plasmas to...

The chemical composition of any planetary atmosphere is of fundamental importance in determining its photochemistry and dynamics in addition to its...

This comprehensive collection of reviews and research reports covers the processes involved in the formation of the Sun and Earth-like planets. Spe...

Magnetic fields pervade the universe and play an important role in many astrophysical processes. However, they require specialised observational to...

White dwarfs are the most numerous members of the stellar graveyard. More than ninety percent of all stars will end their lives as white dwarfs. R...

If the laws of nature are fine-tuned for life, can we infer other universes with different laws? How could we even test such a theory without empir...

Planetary rings are among the most intriguing structures of our solar system and have fascinated generations of astronomers. Collating emerging kno...

Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational qu...

Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there...

Galaxies are known as the building blocks of the universe, but arriving at this understanding has been a thousand-year odyssey. This journey is tol...

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreand why thats a good thingDo we li...

This book offers a systematic exposition of conformal methods and how they can be used to study the global properties of solutions to the equations...

Since the radio signature of our own Milky Way was detected in 1931, galaxies have been observed from ultra-high energy gamma rays to long waveleng...

Join Bonnie J. Buratti, a leading planetary astronomer, on this personal tour of NASA's latest discoveries. Moving through the Solar System from Me...

Von der Physik bis zur Informationstheorie und Kosmologie, von der Struktur tierischer Gesellschaften bis zur linguistischen Analyse der menschlich...

Cosmology - the science of the Universe at large - has experienced a renaissance in the decades bracketing the turn of the twenty-first century. Ex...

th th Mars, the Red Planet, fourth planet from the Sun, forever linked with 19 and 20 Century fantasy of a bellicose, intelligent Martian civilizat...