Astronomy category: 2403 books
Billions & Billions
Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us.
These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind,...
by Michio Kaku
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
In paperback for the centenary of the discovery of relativity, "a fresh and highly visual tour through Einstein's astonishing legacy" (Brian Greene).
The year 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the paper that launched Einstein's career, made E=mc2 famous, and ushered...
Endurance
My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
**NATIONAL BEST SELLER
A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.**
The veteran of four spaceflights and the American...
UFO Briefing Document
The Best Available Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
From Government secret files...The report that shocked the Congress!
The shattering report that stunned the world's top leaders now available to the public!
Are UFOs in our midst? The evidence mounts....
UFO squadrons over Washington, D.C. Tracked on radar. Visual sightings...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The New York Times bestseller: “You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.”—Jon Stewart
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed...
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins.
Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan...
The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of...
Einstein's Shadow
The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins...
Chasing New Horizons
Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern...
Atom
An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.
The Rock From Mars
A True Detective Story on Two Planets
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
In this riveting book, acclaimed journalist Kathy Sawyer reveals the deepest mysteries of space and some of the most disturbing truths on Earth. The Rock from Mars is the story of how two planets and the spheres of politics and science all collided at the end of the twentieth century.
It began sixteen...
by Roger Leir, Whitley Streiber
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Shocking evidence that alien implants are real...as told by the doctor who removed them!
Alien implants. The objects are real. The facts.are indisputable. But where did they come from?
*A defense worker experiences bizarre radiolike noises coming from inside his jaw. Dental X rays reveal...
by Matthias Matting
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
May I introduce: the universe. Born 13.75 billion years ago. Constantly growing. Nearly empty. Electrically neutral. Poor in antimatter. Populated by 100 billion galaxies, including 130 sextillion stars with approximately just as many planets. Consisting of only 4 percent...
The Sign and the Seal
The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
A compelling brew of mystery, crime, and science revealing the details behind the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant.
The Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments....