Astronomy, Space & Time

The Almanac revives the tradition of the rural almanac, connecting you with the months and seasons via moon-gazing, foraging, feast days, seasonal ...

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic prehistory, Bothwell shows us the Universe as weve never seen it befor...

Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful. NatureA magnificent (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious scie...

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matterand shows how that search has helped us to understand th...

This book implements several outstanding features which are helpful to the general reader. It is organized in the form of a ''Questions and Answers...

Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.' --John Berg...

Answers to science's most enduring questions from Can I break the light-speed barrier like on Star Trek? and Is there life on other planets? to Wha...

Are you an emotional Scorpio who needs to pour out your latest drama to your friends and relatives? Perhaps youre an uptight Capricorn who keeps al...

The ideal gift for aspiring astronomers. The sights in our Solar System are dynamic reminders of our planet's position as part of a large...

To study astronomy is to consider the most wondrous phenomena on the grandest of scales the universe and all it contains. Beginning with our ear...

Clarity, readability, and rigor combine in the third edition of this widely used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for adv...