Astrophysics

'Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together' Bi...

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einsteins general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scient...

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

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life SelectionSuccinct, accessible, and remarkably timely...

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life SelectionSuccinct, accessible, and remarkably timely...

IAU Symposium 361 brought together observational and theoretical astrophysicists to discuss all aspects of massive stars: their formation, evolutio...

This book presents the first comprehensive exploration of the state of this well studied and thus unsolved mystery of the value of the Hubble const...

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...

'A cracking tale of particle physics and cosmology . . . Space Oddities is a rare joy enlightening, thrilling and inspiring.' New Scientist'As fa...

'A cracking tale of particle physics and cosmology . . . Space Oddities is a rare joy' New Scientist'Engaging' The Wall Street JournalNewly obser...

The rapidly expanding field of galaxy formation lies at the interface between astronomy, particle physics, and cosmology. Covering diverse topics f...

This symposium honors the contributions of Charlotte Moore Sitterly as a pioneer of spectroscopy, and astronomical spectroscopy in particular. The ...

The periodluminosity relation (PLR) is an important relationship between the fundamental physical properties of many types of variable stars. Most ...

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...

Neutron stars represent natural laboratories where all kinds of processes and reactions take place in unusual and extremely dense matter. Neutron s...