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Comet presents the amazing story of the Rosetta space probe and its interstellar voyage to the comet Tchoury. Its mission - to find clues to the origins of our solar...

A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas...

Physicist and science writer James Trefil authoritatively explores the origin and evolution of our solar system, then ventures beyond, to the realm of black holes, pulsars and galaxies near and...

In this text, the author presents his new theory that inside every black hole is a universe, probably very similar to our own, but where the laws of physics are...

This work takes the reader on a fantastic voyage - strolling on mars with the spirit and opportunity robot missions. The cream of the astonishing crop of photographs brought back...

Bringing together a wealth of information from many sources, including some material never before published, this atlas is a comprehensive reference on lunar exploration. It tells the story of every...

Explore the wonders of our solar system--a corner of the universe that astronomers understand more fully every day. Starting at the sun, the center of it all, we move outward,...

Stars are the building blocks of galaxies. Astoundingly, there are 4,000 million stars in our own Milky Way, and there are two million million galaxies in our visible universe. Stars...

Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers...

Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? What kind of animal can have 21 limbs? Who would really win a fight between a T.Rex and Godzilla? Test your...

NOW IN PAPERBACK A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the...

"The Universe: A Biography" makes cosmology accessible to everyone. John Gribbin navigates the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the...

An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a...

The book titled Astronomy 2001 by the author Dawes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World 's Book of the Year The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014 A Publishers...

In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in...

Born and raised in remote Broken Hill, Trevor Barry left school after year ten to work in the mines. Years later, a single glimpse of Saturn through a colleague's telescope...

'This is a great first book for diving into astronomy, and even better for an update on the Big One, "Is there life in the universe?"' Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, University...

A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it.A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are...

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and...

A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life For Irwin Shapiro, good science starts with good questions. This book provides a broad...

'Beautifully written... I promise you will feel more in tune with the world around after reading only one chapter of WILD SIGNS and STAR PATHS , let alone the book...

This book is an interstallar journey from th e first moments of the universe to the present-day search fo r extraterrestrial life. Lively, informative text is accompa nied by full-colour...

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After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking new work...

A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions-about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature-and how it contends with...

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre...

A shattering discovery reveals the secret of the universe through a mathematical formula.

Through four decades of space exploration and ever-better telescopes, astronomers have searched in vain, unable to find even a single planet orbiting any of the myriad of sunlike stars strewn...

The book titled Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by the author Philip Morrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This edition of this brief text has been thoroughly updated. The accompanying CD-ROM features a special student version of the award-winning virtual planetarium software "Starry Night" plus software animations and...

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on "the future of God," one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is...

'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely...

As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century...

One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what...

*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...

'Inventive [...] done beautifully' - TLS From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer...

'VISIONARY' Stephen Greenblatt Harvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our solar system In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed...

From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars...

The book titled The Astronomers by the author Dr Donald Goldsmith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Children'S Space Atlas Kerrod Robin by the author Robin Kerrod. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition,...

In the 19th century astronomers, geologists and evolutionists first suggested that the Earth and Sun were (at least) millions of years old. By the early 20th century, many assumed that...

A gorgeous anniversary edition of the international phenomenon- 'one of the best books of the 21st century' (Guardian) These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the...