Solar System: The Sun & Planets

The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust t...

How do alien, faraway worlds reveal their existence to Earthlings? Let Donald Goldsmith count the ways. As an experienced astronomer and a gifted s...

This Is Mars offers a thrilling visual experience of the surface of the red planet. The multi-award-winning French editor and designer Xavier Bar...

Use your star sign to reach your goals and transform your everyday life!Understand yourself, learn how to make decisions according to your star sig...

The cycle of day and night and the cycle of seasons are two familiar natural cycles around which many human activities are organized. But is there ...

Dr Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter - one of the select group of scientists working diligently to map our cosmic neighbourhood. For the first ti...

This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwar...

With this revised edition of THE SOLAR SYSTEM, author Mike Seeds' goal is to help you use astronomy to understand science -- and use science to und...

What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school but do we really understand what we are seeing in the night sky? Expert as...

This is volume 5 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research, covering subjects of key interest ...

Part of everyday life, yet rich in symbolic meaning, renderings of the sun and the moon are present in all folk and tribal art traditions of India....

Explore Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon, in this fascinating and timely book and discover what we should expect from this seemingly familiar but...

A milestone in modern research on the the harmony of the spheres. - Novalis magazine This book reignites the debate on the harmony of the spheres....

This single, coherent review of the theory behind extrasolar planet formation and interaction systematically covers all aspects of the topic, inclu...

The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.g. the prevalence ...

Compiled by a team of experts, this textbook introduces the properties and evolution of the most immediately visible objects in the Universe stars...

In his new book, Transit of Venus, 1631 to the Present, Dr Nick Lomb - an astronomer at the Sydney Observatpry and the author of the Australian Sky...

The first half of this book is devoted to earth's moon. General statistical data are followed by such subjects as eclipses, spacecraft landings,...