Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This comprehensive ebook provides a complete guide to the ongoing plans for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. The Mars 2020 mission would explore a site likely to have been habitable, seek signs of past life, fill a returnable cache with the most compelling samples, and demonstrate technology needed...
by Mohmmad Khaja Shareef
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD:1. Every student heartily wishes to show his mettle in 11th class and 12th class. He will score cent percent marks if he works according to a perfect plan.2. The student must not simply get the answers by heart. He must cultivate the habit of reading an answer by understanding...
The Science of Star Wars
An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Could the science fiction of Star Wars be the actual science of tomorrow?
-How close are we to creating robots that look and act like R2-D2 and C-3PO?
-Can we access a "force" with our minds to move objects and communicate telepathically with each other?
-How might spaceships like...
Death from the Skies!
The Science Behind the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe?s most fascinating events.
According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae?...
A Briefer History of Time
The Science Classic Made More Accessible
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS
The science classic made more accessible
• More concise • Illustrated
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time...
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...
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 Cosmic Cocktail
Three Parts Dark Matter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe—from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars—constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail...
The Hole in the Universe
How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A compelling, enjoyable, and widely accessible exploration of one of the most fundamental scientific issues of our age” (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe).
In The Hole in the Universe, an award-winning science writer “provides an illuminating slant on physics and mathematics...
by Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures.
“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black...
Mars Landing 2012
Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale...
by Phillip Duke
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
The stars are very far away in terms of distances, but Not in terms of the times required to travel the distances. By applying Einstein's proven principle of Time Contraction, the many Earth type worlds orbiting distant stars become readily available for colonization. They are waiting to be claimed,...
How to Love the Universe
A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more
How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan...
Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book
Discover how the universe began
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.
The greatest discovery in the history of science is that the universe has not existed forever but was born. There was a day without a yesterday . . .
The Big Bang is an accessible, authoritative introduction for anyone looking to understand...