Astrophysics

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...

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

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...

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...

This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massi...

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...

This graduate textbook on optimal spacecraft trajectories demonstrates the theory and applications of using the minimum amount of propellant possib...

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative ...

After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling u...