Astronomy, Space & Time

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. This is the ideal resource for beginners and experienced stargazers in the Unite...

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. “This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price” Astronomy Now ...

Man's view of the universe is widening today, as it did once before in the early days of big telescopes and photographic plates. Modern man, by mea...

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fie...

Ever since the first observations of sunspots in the early seventeenth century, stellar rotation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysi...

When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revo...

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heil...

What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neithe...

'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize to...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history*Selected as a Book of ...

Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology ...

Now with a full-color insert and thoroughly revised, this perennial bestseller is the most comprehensive and successful beginner's astronomy books ...

Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding...