Astrophysics

Wie entstand das Leben auf der Erde? Dieses Werk beschreibt anschaulich die Bedeutung der Chemie als Grundlage der Evolution: vom Sternenstaub über...

Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Presc...

An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create...

After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Ca...

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the Bavarian Competence Network for Technical and Scienti?c High Performance Computing (KONWIHR) publis...

Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists ...

In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace afte...

A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. It...

The two-volume book Gravitational Waves provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Volume 1 is devo...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant and most necessary chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every ce...

A short, graduate-level synthesis of recent developments in theoretical physics, from a pioneer in the fieldLectures on the Infrared Structure of G...

Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts t...

CHOICE: Highly RecommendedQuarks, Leptons and The Big Bang, Third Edition, is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics...

What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? Th...

Cosmic masers have been employed as unique probes of various astronomical objects and environments, ranging from newly born stars and evolved stars...

This book provides an overview of the discovery of liquid water on Mars and the physical and geochemical processes that cause liquid saline water t...