Astrophysics

Bringing together leading researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, A...

Interest in and knowledge of the techniques utilised to investigate our solar system has been growing rapidly for decades and has now reached a sta...

Written by one of today's most highly respected astrophysicists, "Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics" is an introduction to the mathematical a...

Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here is his follow up to the phenomenal bestse...

Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by bla...

The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you’ll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa R...

"This is a remarkable book: a symposium proceedings volume that will also function as a graduate-level text. Dedicated to the great theorist S. Cha...

Neutron stars, the most extreme state of matter yet confirmed, are responsible for much of the high-energy radiation detected in the universe. Mèsz...

The Physics of Stars, Second Edition, is a concise introduction to the properties of stellar interiors and consequently the structure and evolution...

A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and re...

This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understan...

The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC's decadal survey for solar system research. In order to opti...

This book is intended as a supplementary text to the standard course books on theoretical physics and astrophysics, addressing applications and sel...

As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moon and someday go to Mars. An important considerati...

Stars are the main factories of element production in the universe through a suite of complex and intertwined physical processes. Such stellar alch...

Long established as one of the premier references in the fields of astronomy, planetary science, and physics, the fourth edition of Orbital Motion ...

A concise introduction, Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy appeals to the newcomer of astronomical spectroscopy and assumes no previous specialist k...

Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists ...

'The past cultures of astronomy and physics evolved their own distinct personalities. The book describes an important milestone in the history of t...

Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. ...

Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. ...

Encompasses the Lectured Works of a Renowned Expert in the FieldPlasma Physics: An Introduction is based on a series of university course lectures ...

Encompasses the Lectured Works of a Renowned Expert in the FieldPlasma Physics: An Introduction is based on a series of university course lectures ...

This textbook provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to detectors in particle physics. It emphasises the core physics principles, en...

A concise introduction, Optical Astronomical Spectroscopy appeals to the newcomer of astronomical spectroscopy and assumes no previous specialist k...

Modern cosmology has changed significantly over the years, from the discovery to the precision measurement era. The data now available provide a we...

A Powerful Window into Cosmic EvolutionTerahertz (THz) observations of interstellar atoms, molecules, and dust serve as powerful probes of the cond...

Physics of the invisible Sun: Instrumentation, Observations, and Inferences provides a new updated perspectives of the dramatic developments in sol...

A variety of evolutionary sequences of models for the solar interior has been computed, corresponding to variations in input data, to obtain some i...

Numerical Methods in Astrophysics: An Introduction outlines various fundamental numerical methods that can solve gravitational dynamics, hydrodynam...

The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (...

Here is a fascinating reader-friendly exploration of “the phosphorus enigma.” The volume attempts to answer the questions: How did phosphorus atoms...

Black holes are becoming increasingly important in contemporary research in astrophysics, cosmology, theoretical physics, and mathematics. Indeed, ...

The Second Principle of Thermodynamics is nowadays a sort of "religious" belief: the certainty that our universe, with everything in it, is destine...

This volume addresses a new opportunity in the planetary sciences—to extend our exploration outward to discover and study planetary systems that ma...

The Poetry of Physics explores the intersection of science and art, blending the intricate beauty of physics with the evocative power of poetry. Th...

This book addresses the fascinating subject of astrophysics from its theoretical basis to predominant research conducted in the field today. An acc...

From award-winning science writer Barry Parker, the only book to consider chaos theory in all areas of astronomy.

Part of the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book was first published in 1983, and has swiftly become one of the...

Thoroughly revised, expanded and updated throughout, this new edition of Astrophysics of GaseousNebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei is a graduate-l...

The Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects ...

Our concepts of the sun have been altered by four new developments--the discovery of apparent global solar oscillations, an unsettled and unsettlin...