Astronomy

THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings ...

From the big bang to black holes, this fast-paced tour of time and space for the astro-curious unlocks the science of the stars to reveal fas...

Over the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, l...

There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow...

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist. In his work "Talking with Planets", the prodigious invento...

The Sun, as our nearest star, is of enormous importance for life on Earth, providing the warm radiation and light which allowed complex life ...

A manned mission to Mars has been the dream of humanity at least since the nineteenth century when we first saw details of the surface and th...

First of all, why is the title of this book about mining Asteroid Belts? When we learned about the Asteroid Belt when studying the Solar Syst...

Man has dreamed of travelling to the stars for as long as he knew that those points of light in the sky were stars like the Sun.Now, in the 2...

When Albert Einstein published his first paper on relativity theory, it caused a stir in the physicists' community. When more and more eviden...

This book is the seventh volume of “The Living in Space Series”. Each volume focuses on one particular technology of living in sp...

The Universe is a very big place and has many mysteries. Most people don't realize just how mysterious it is. Scientists are stumped by many ...

When people look up into the night sky, the stars seem fixed and immutable, as unchanging as the darkness of space itself, but the truth is ...