Astronomy, Space & Time

Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic adva...

Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that ...

Through more than fifty Koanspleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen traditionleading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader...

The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of a...

A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Rev...

With this newly revised 7th edition of Universe: Solar System, Stars, and Galaxies, International Edition Mike Seeds' and Dana Backman's goal is to...

This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special re...