Popular Astronomy & Space

***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***Travel the night sky and discover the stories in the stars. What a beautiful book it is! A treasured possession. Mary B...

From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he ca...

From the brilliant illustrator, Simon Tyler, comes a wonderful compendium of space, space travel and much more.One day our sun will grow...and grow...

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there ...

Discover the fascinating and cutting-edge science behind the greatest question of all: is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up...

Astronomy: A Complete Introduction will ensure you recognize what you are seeing in the night sky. You will investigate the sun, moon, planets come...

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet - ...

_______________ Starman takes us at breakneck speed through Gagarin's strange trajectory ... Without books like these to shelter it, history is er...

For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans...

All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2015 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is hosted by the Royal Observatory, Gree...

From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy...

Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Book Festival Book Award, Photography, 2013Americans have been driven to explore beyond the horizon ever since the P...

All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2014 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, G...

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet - ...

Reach for the stars Stargazing is the practice of observing the night sky and its contents - from constellations through to planets and galaxies. ...

All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2016 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is hosted by the Royal Observato...

In this astronomically spectacular, large-format photographic retrospective, National Geographic celebrates the impact of the Hubble Space Telescop...

What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimen...

When observing the sky on a very clear, dark night, the soft glow of the Milky Way with its thousands of stars can be seen with the naked eye. Over...

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensor...

Meet the astronauts leading the way to a new world of space travel.'Masterly' New York Times'Riveting' Scott Kelly'Remarkable' The Times__When Rich...

The inspirational autobiography of Britains beloved astronaut Tim Peake, the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this Planet Earth? and Ask an Astro...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wilde...

Let Lonely Planet take you further than ever before with the world's first and only travel guide to the Universe. Developed with the latest data fr...

'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe' Giles Sparro...

So staggering you go whoa! every few seconds Guardian Really impressive Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morn...

The Herschel 400 is a list of 400 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters, picked from over 2,500 deep-sky objects discovered and catalogued by the gre...

The Sun, which is our own star at the center of the Solar System, gives rise to all life on Earth and is the driver of photosynthesis in plants and...

From Galileos telescope to the International Space Station - a photo-filled tour through the milestones of space exploration This eclectic pop his...

This rarely-seen map of the Moon originates from a 300-inch hand-drawn map produced by the engineer and amateur astronomer Hugh Percival Wilkins (1...

Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Eart...

A New Scientist Book of the YearA Physics Today Book of the YearA Science News Book of the YearThe history of science is replete with women getting...

Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mis...

How hot is Venus? Can you distinguish between a pulsar and a quasar? Is there a universe or a multiverse? Where do we fit into the infinitely grand...

The story of the search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question...

The journey into space is a dangerous one, and although some aspects of space travel seem to be routine it still takes humanity to the limits of wh...

On October 1, 1958, the worlds first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Unions launch of Sputnik a ye...

There''''s a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orb...

Galaxies - the Milky Way's siblings - offer a surprising variety of forms and colours. Displaying symmetrical spiral arms, glowing red nebulae or d...

What We See in the Stars Kelsey Oseid is a richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar syste...

The first edition of 'Hubble's Universe' displayed 300 pages of high-resolution celestial portraits selected by bestselling astronomy writer Terenc...

When the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, the whole world watched. When the Fly Me to the Moon art quilt challenge went out, it went global. Thi...