Astrophysics

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...

Astronomy is the field of science devoted to the study of astronomical objects, such as stars, galaxies, and nebulae. Astronomers have gathered a w...

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...

Black holes present one of the most fascinating predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity. There is strong evidence of their existence...

The essence of temporal universe creation is that any analytical solution has to comply with the boundary condition of our universe; dimensionality...

Addressing a variety of theoretical cosmological problems, and emphasizing a mathematical approach, this volume nicely complements Peebles' Physica...

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