Popular Astronomy & Space

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, ...

'Janet Dowling is magic and her stories bring the wonders of the night sky onto the page. She has journeyed from Polar ice to Pacific islands in se...

Shot with ultra-high definition cameras, this book of amazing photographs showcases a period of unusually high solar activity in the Northern Light...

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASAs most vital and...

Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe . . .The Universe in Your Hand take...

Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller Engaging, ambitious and creative Guardian Where...

An Economist book of the year. Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the inside story of that epic journey....

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 respons...

In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important phil...

This firsthand account of the development of the Apollo 11 mission gives a behind-the-scenes look at the 1969 moon landing mission from an engin...

In 1859, the brilliant scientist Urbain LeVerrier discovered that the planet Mercury has a wobble, that its orbit shifts over time. His explanation...

Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely discussed scient...

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought i...

Printed with special luminescent ink, 366 glow-in-the-dark moons let you track the phases of the moon throughout the year. Expert captions describe...

The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and en...

'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Ald...

An offbeat guided tour of the Universe, focusing on weird and wonderful facts.Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder knows more than most of us what a s...

The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the present day and bey...