Astronomy, Space & Time

Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric condit...

'Janet Dowling is magic and her stories bring the wonders of the night sky onto the page. She has journeyed from Polar ice to Pacific islands in se...

'This is an interesting and bittersweet biography. Elizabeth Alexander was a capable and energetic scientist, but circumstances meant that she was ...

Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely discussed scient...

'Totally engrossing' - STEPHEN KING on The Ninth MetalTHE FINAL BOOK IN PERCY'S CRITICALLY CLAIMED COMET CYCLE SERIES!The comet, Cain, came from be...

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought i...

Early Universe cosmology is an active area of research and cosmic inflation is a pillar of modern cosmology. Among predictions of inflation, observ...

Printed with special luminescent ink, 366 glow-in-the-dark moons let you track the phases of the moon throughout the year. Expert captions describe...

The topic of the CVIII session of the Ecole de Physique des Houches, held in July 2017, was Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics and Cosmolog...

The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question ...

The world of science has been transformed. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear sk...

The first book devoted to the bioethics of the space-mission environment, The Bioethics of Space Exploration explores the ethical status of possibl...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical univ...