Popular Astronomy & Space

The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know. When we decide to understand the uni...

Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission to find clues to the ori...

Written by an active researcher in the field, Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos tells the rich scientific story of galaxy evolution and observation disco...

Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. ...

View your favorite constellations anytime, anywhere with the Tiny Planetarium!Bring the mystery and wonder of the night sky to your office or home ...

THAT''S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN ... The Moon has always fascinated humans, and thoughts on how to get there occupied minds for hundreds of years. Du...

A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... bel...

Make: High-Power Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure out where Neil Armstrong walked, watch in awe as rocke...

*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2*From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking yea...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has la...

Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert ti...

All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory, Green...

Since the time of the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, the observation, study and representation of the night sky has been a challenge for humans...

In 1969, humankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins carried the fire for all the world. Backed by the ...

In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. T...

Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us, as we''ve struggled to...

Embark on a breath-taking, cutting-edge voyage through the enormity of our reality - travelling one power of ten or order of magnitude at a time. E...

On July 20, 1969, humanity paused with attention locked to television and radio broadcasts as the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission dramatically ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions to the moon, this collection features 50 key artifacts from the Smithsonian archives from t...

Astronomy, especially naked-eye astronomy, is a wonderful way for children and young people to engage with the world and universe around them. Many...

The first photo book by the Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking Year in Space. This is an awe-inspiring collection of the photo...

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen i...

A gripping first-person account of how scientists came to understand our universe's mysterious structureJ. Richard Gott was among the first cosmolo...

'Inspirational' Buzz AldrinWhen exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is da...

The first thing that every stargazer needs - an hour-by-hour and night-by-night moveable map of the stars 'A really useful bit of kit...a map of th...

Meteorites are among the rarest objects on Earth, yet they have left a pervasive mark on our planet and civilization. Arriving amidst thunderous bl...

The numbers involved when it comes to discussing stars, galaxies and the inconceivably vast tracts of empty space between them are staggering. With...