Astrophysics

An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer   The galaxy, the multiverse, ...

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.In...

ASTROPHYSICS The new edition of the popular textbook for undergraduate astronomers, covers the “how” of astrophysicsAstrophysics: Decoding the Cosm...

An Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics aspires to provide the reader with an intermediate knowledge on stars whilst focusing mostly on the explana...

‘If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book ...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

“A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved...

As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your b...

There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit,...

Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental my...

In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating...

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 ...

Embark on your own personal journey into the night sky. Stardate: Today! Ever catch yourself staring up at the night sky and wondering just what th...

A Modern Primer in Particle and Nuclear Physics provides a cohesive introduction to the fundamentals of the field and is designed to be accessible ...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Almost everything we know about the Universe has come from studying the messages carried by...

Magnetic fields permeate our vast universe, urging electrically charged particles on their courses, powering solar and stellar flares, and focusing...

A graduate-level textbook on the astrophysics of binary star systems and their evolutionPhysics of Binary Star Evolution is an up-to-date textbook ...

The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them.Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The...

The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who cr...

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scien...

The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology—the existe...

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes “For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life” Selection“Succinct, accessible, and remarkably tim...

The book is about multidisciplinary science education. The challenges of our time, such as improving the length and quality of lives on Earth and s...

Combining research methods from various areas of mathematics and physics, Probabilistic Models of Cosmic Backgrounds describes the isotropic random...

'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written b...

If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you... you were right!Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious an...

Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are fe...

In Strange New Worlds, renowned astronomer Ray Jayawardhana brings news from the front lines of the epic quest to find planets--and alien life--bey...

When we look at a starry night sky, we are looking out through vast invisible expanses of our own Solar System. The planets, appearing as bright sp...