Solar System: The Sun & Planets

This comprehensive introductory overview describes the emission of radiation (X-rays to radio) and the winds of host stars and how they control the...

The Moon has always been an object of immense fascination for humanity and not just because of its prominence in the night sky. With its complex o...

Over the last two decades alone, new technology and space missions have profoundly changed our understanding of prospective extraterrestrial life i...

This book reviews the scientific objectives and the instrumentation of the space mission BepiColombo. BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA an...

Here are exact times of full, new, and first- and last-quarter moons for all American time zones, plus detailed information on 2012's rare blue moo...

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar w...

An insiders account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbitAre we alone in the u...

What if? questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. What if the Earth Had Two Moons leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey e...

During the recent decades, space missions (e.g., CHAMP, GOCE, GRACE and Swarm) have been developed by space agencies in Europe and the USA to measu...

This second edition of the book that targets those in computer algebra and artificial intelligence introduces Black Hole algorithm that is essentia...

The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Third Editionwinner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy from the Association of American Pub...

This book is an appealing, concise, and factual account of the chemistry of the solar system. It includes basic facts about the chemical compositio...

The rotation of the Sun is a basic parameter which constrains the boundary conditions for the model of the MHD-dynamo mechanisms that generates sol...

This book offers a tour of the known galaxy, here defined as the region of interstellar space closest to Earth. The phrase the known galaxy has a p...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical as...

Questo libro fornisce una panoramica completa dello sviluppo della fisica dei raggi cosmici, con considerazioni storiche e didattiche, dalle prime ...

This book is a state-of-the-art review on the physics of space weather and on space weather impacts on human technology, including manned spaceflig...

'A deft, frequently dramatic tour'Nature'A wonderfully clear and readable book . . . Gives a splendid overview of our Sun's planetary system, inclu...

Mangalyaan was launched on November 5, 2013, to Mars by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). On October 2, 2022, ISRO declared that Mangalyaa...

Venus is a scientifically rich target for exploration.The evolution of Venus is, at present, poorly known, despite it being our closest planetary n...

This book highlights fundamentals and advances in the theories and observations of solar magnetic fields. Solar magnetism is an important part of s...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the dynamo processes that generate magnetic fields in the Sun and oth...