Solar System: The Sun & Planets

Proving to be both varied and fascinating, moons are far more common than planets in our Solar System. Our own Moon has had a profound influence on...

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent re...

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent re...

Dawn­Dusk Asymmetries in Planetary Plasma Environments Dawn-dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the plasma environment of many of the plane...

This book provides readers with an understanding of the basic physics and mathematics that governs our solar system. It explores the mechanics of o...

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the ...

What is a planet? The answer may seem obvious; still, the definition of a planet has continuously evolved over the centuries, and their number has ...

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history o...

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be per...

Awe-inspiring and familiar, comforting yet sometimes frightening, the sun is the center around which all life revolves. Now, an expert on solar ima...

The origin of the solar system has been a matter of speculation for many centuries, and since the time of Newton it has been possible to apply scie...

Stars are the building blocks of galaxies. Astoundingly, there are 4,000 million stars in our own Milky Way, and there are two million million gala...

The origin of the solar system has been a matter of speculation for many centuries, and since the time of Newton it has been possible to apply scie...

The conquest of Earth's moon was merely a precursor to a more dramatic step forward, which will take men and women to an outpost that might eventua...

Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the...

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This ...

The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which h...

Since the earliest times one of the brightest lights in the heavens has been that of Jupiter, mythical king of the gods and the largest planet in t...

This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the fi...

This fully-updated second edition remains the only truly detailed exploration of the origins of our Solar System, written by an authority in the fi...

This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions — detection of molecule H2 an...

Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar Sys...

This authoritative book presents the theoretical development of gravitational physics as it applies to the dynamics of celestial bodies and the ana...

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This ...

All magnetized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) interact strongly with the solar wind and possess...

The magnetosphere is the region in which the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, the zone which screens the Earth from most of th...

The solar system has always been a messy place in which gravity wreaks havoc. Moons form, asteroids and comets crash into planets, ice ages commenc...

Did you know that scientists are beginning to think that the sun is safer than sunscreen? That whenever we see the sun on the horizon, it's actuall...

Copernicus sowed the seed from which science has grown to be a dominant aspect of modern culture, fundamental in shaping our understanding of the w...

Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific ...

From his studies of historical records Immanuel Velikovsky has concluded that close encounters between the Earth and the planet Mars and Venus occu...

What is Mars? From the ancients to the present, we have imagined Mars repeatedly and studied it longingly. As scientific knowledge of Mars has chan...

Mars is back. Suddenly everyone - from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump - is talking about going to the Red Planet.When the Apollo astrona...

This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understan...