Space Science

The GPS -- a space-based satellite system that provides positioning, navigation, and timing data to users worldwide -- has become an essential U.S....

In the era of technological advancement astronomers want to build the most powerful telescope ever, to see back to before the first stars and galax...

This book details current international collaborations in space exploration and outlines a path for inclusion of private sector space missions.

This book presents an overview of NASAs past operations and provides detailed accounts of some current missions and how they will form the future o...

In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before t...

The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the...

The paradox of global universe rotation, as it seems, is today one of its greatest mysteries of nature. The idea originated less than a hundred ye...

The story of the search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question...

There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space. Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interst...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...

The methodical study of the crystal growth processes and electrophoretic separation of the biomixtures have been carried out under microgravity con...

The identification of extraterrestrial chiral compounds could provide compelling evidence to prove that extraterrestrial environments such as Mars ...

This book is a ricochet against mainstream physics. It sprang out of the idea that outer symmetries of space-time are the same as inner symmetries ...

A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that has a mechanism to beam light. This mechanism is only partially understood, but is connected with ...