Popular Astronomy & Space

Astronomy and astrophotography are fascinating hobbies. It is possible to create and enhance astronomical equipment and accessories using techniqu...

"Have you ever seen a total solar eclipse?" If the question caused you to search your memory, the correct answer would have been "no." A common res...

What will happen if (perhaps when) humanity makes contact with another civilisation on a different planet?In 1974 a message was beamed towards the ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the universe – and our place within it – in one mind-expanding and highly accessible book. ___ What happe...

As David Ovason shows, eclipse have always marked turning points in history and in the lives of individuals: the foundation of Rome, the crucifixio...

This book presents in a simple style the success story of modern astrophysics — how the application of known physics to models of stars can, togeth...

In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense univer...

In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense univer...

Eade has checked the dates of more than 250 inscriptions from Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. He reproduces old calendrists' calculations for ...

When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze. This is chaos in action. In Fly Me to the Moon, Edwa...

A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vot...

The discovery of life on other planets would be perhaps the most momentous revelation in human history, more disorienting and more profound than ei...

The Moon has been an object of fascination for religions, cultures, and societies the world over since the dawn of humanity.The Moon is a beautiful...

Explore the Brightest Stars in the Night SkyExplore the 25 brightest stars in the night sky and discover their unique characteristics, life cycles,...

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE STORIES OF THE SKY Discover the mysteries of celestial mythology with this comprehensive introduction to the constellatio...

A clever, thought-provoking guide that attacks common astronomical misconceptions What is Bad Astronomy? Anything that accidentally or intentionall...

Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made d...

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a bril...

Questions about the heavens are as old as civilization, perhaps as old as language itself. Is this universe infinite? What are the lights we see in...

Your Night Sky Companion! To gaze skyward is to be filled with wonder. You might find yourself asking questions like, “Is that bright object a plan...

Since the dawn of time, people have been fascinated by the idea of travelling to the stars, which is vividly illustrated by utopian and dystopian w...

One of the most powerful images in the history of space exploration is of an astronaut in a spacesuit, untethered, and seemingly floating alone in ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best...

A substantially revised and updated edition of the introductory textbook on cosmology for undergraduates. While designed as the main text for a cou...

This is a substantially revised and updated new edition of a classic introductory textbook. Although there are a wealth of cosmology texts at postg...

It is only recently that advances in chemistry, physics, and biology and in their application to space and the space sciences, have provided scient...

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of David A. Rothery's acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and c...

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncha...

For over a quarter of a century, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. The Bi...

Do a little armchair time travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncha...

From the bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku's Parallel Worlds takes us to the frontiers of scientific knowledge to expla...

Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With ...

In 2004, Venus crossed the sun's face for the first time since 1882. Some did not bother to step outside. Others planned for years, reserving ticke...