Astrophysics Space Science category: 1588 books
Calculating the Cosmos
How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos.
In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy,...
Titan Unveiled
Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully parachuted down through Titan's atmosphere, all the while transmitting images and data. In the early...
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
First published in 1915, a best-seller in the 1920s and long out of print, Interplanetary Travel is a short excursion into space physics. Using conundrums, entertaining examples, and unexpected comparisons, Yakov Perelman dispelled some of the public prejudice that prevailed against celestial mechanics...
by Kevin B. Marvel, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
See the skies in a whole new light. Take a tour of the universe, from our local solar system to the far reaches of deepest space. Astronomy Made Simple offers a complete introduction to this science, from its birth in ancient times to the different types of super-powerful telescopes scientists use...
by Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy...
Gravity's Engines
How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012
Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer"
Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012
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Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus
Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
ESA’s Venus Express Mission has monitored Venus since April 2006, and scientists worldwide have used mathematical models to investigate its atmosphere and model its circulation. This book summarizes recent work to explore and understand the climate of the planet through a research program under...
Rock Legends
The Asteroids and Their Discoverers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs. Moving from history and anecdotal information to science, the book's structure is provided by the names of the asteroids, including one named...
Meteorites
Classification and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I succeeded it should prove useful both to the practicing professional and to university students at the upper-division and graduate levels. I originally intended...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears
The Search for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'Highly recommended' Financial Times
Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds, surely our planet isn't the only one that, like the porridge Goldilocks sought, is just right for life?
Astrobiologists...
by E. Marsch, H.-J. Fahr, K. Scherer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2001
The eleventh COSPAR colloquium The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers was held in Potsdam, Germany, from 24-28 July, 2000, and is the second dedicated to this subject after the first one held in Warsaw, Poland in 1989.
Roughly a century has passed after the first ideas by Oliver Lodge, George Francis...
Martian Summer
My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Temperamental Robots, and NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A space enthusiast goes inside mission control with a motley crew of rocket scientists in this “fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor” (Publishers Weekly).
The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. Its purpose was to find out how...
Earths of Distant Suns
How We Find Them, Communicate with Them, and Maybe Even Travel There
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Based on the latest missions results and supported by commissioned artwork, this book explores the possible lessons we may learn from exoplanets. As the number of known Earth-like objects grows significantly, the author explores what is known about the growing roster of "pale blue dots"...
Quantum Physics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Lessons Learned from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
What happens when we look at two of the most important sciences of today, quantum physics and artificial intelligence, through Chinese eyes?
We see that the Chinese developed an esthetic theory about space and time centuries before Albert Einstein developed Relativity Theory. We also understand...