Astrophysics

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity. The second in a two-volume set, this volume is presented in two parts, covering its...

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity. The first in a two-volume set, this volume is presented in two parts, covering radi...

This book describes the possible distribution of life in the Milky Way. Our description is mathematical in order to be extrapolated from what we kn...

Can you kick a black hole? What about electrons? As a child, quantum-physicist Smitha Vishveshwara pondered such questions with her astrophysicist ...

For all being interested in astronautics, this translation of Hermann Oberths classic work is a truly historic event. Readers will be impressed wit...

Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologists everyday conversa...

This book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a com...

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroi...

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations. In Part I, it reviews the basic equations for...

Foundations of Astrophysics provides a contemporary and complete introduction to astrophysics for astronomy and physics majors. With a logical pres...

The historic detection of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015, prompted by the highly energetic fusion of two black holes, has made events in...

A thorough introduction to modern ideas on cosmology and on the physical basis of the general theory of relativity, An Introduction to the Science ...

CHOICE Recommended Title, March 2019This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both ...

Waves and Oscillations in Plasmas addresses central issues in modern plasma sciences, within the context of general classical physics. The book is ...

Authored by two of the most respected experts in the field of nuclear matter, this book provides an up-to-date account of developments in nuclear m...

Unifying the Universe: The Physics of Heaven and Earth presents a non-technical approach to physics for the lay-science enthusiast. This popular te...

This revised edition provides an up-to-date summary of the field of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, dealing with their origin, propagation, and comp...

Despite remarkable advances in astronomy, space research, and related technology since the first edition of this book was published, the philosophy...

For more than eighty years, brilliant and eccentric scientists around the world have been searching for the incredibly small bits of matter we call...

Very-high-energy astrophysics studies the most energetic photons in the sky, allowing the exploration of violent and extreme non-thermal phenomena ...

This textbook gives a lively introduction to the search for extraterrestrial life. It is a guidebook to understanding the possibility of life elsew...

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technolog...

This book offers new findings on the impact of galaxy mergers on galaxy evolution and related processes. Galaxies are astronomical objects composed...

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wi...

Identifying and measuring the elemental x-rays released when materials are examined with particles (electrons, protons, alpha particles, etc.) or p...

Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cos...

First Published in 1992. This book arose as a result of the authors work on the review Solitary Vortices in Plasmas written for the Soviet Journal ...

Helping readers understand the complicated laws of nature, Advanced Particle Physics Volume II: The Standard Model and Beyond explains the calculat...

This third edition of The Physics of the Interstellar Medium continues to introduce advanced undergraduates to the fundamental processes and the wi...

Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity. They are the natural product of the complete gravitational collaps...

Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This bo...

How did life originate? Is there life beyond Earth? What is the future of life on our planet? The rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of astrob...

In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording....