Astrophysics & Space Science 94

Winner of the Bronze Medal for Science in the 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards In this companion volume to John Bisney and J. L. Pickering’s extraordinary book of rare photographs from ……続きを見る

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase “abandoned in place” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too ……続きを見る

The suicide of an assassin. In a sequence of analytical in-depth studies, the mysteries of the Cosmos, entwined in a union of science and philosophy, knowledge and research and the evolution of all ……続きを見る

La Future Colonisation de Mars. Tout le monde semble penser à Mars de nos jours. La NASA prévoit d'avoir des humains sur Mars d'ici 2030 tandis que SpaceX veut le faire plus tôt, d'ici 2024. Mars es……続きを見る

**As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading a……続きを見る

Evolution and the Emergent Self is an eloquent and evocative new synthesis that explores how the human species emerged from the cosmic dust. Lucidly presenting ideas about the rise of complexity in ……続きを見る

One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Astronomy, in particular, is o……続きを見る

If you have ever wondered about space travel, now you have the opportunity to understand it more fully than ever before. Traveling into space and even emigrating to nearby worlds may soon become par……続きを見る

Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United St……続きを見る

Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents ……続きを見る

From whereーand whatーdoes water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen ne……続きを見る

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in th……続きを見る

An informative, accessible, easy-to-use guide to physics, covering the fundamental concepts and amazing discoveries that govern our universe! We don’t need a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to know that e……続きを見る

A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. "One of the finest books I have read on quantum mechanics: lucid and careful, but also entertaining, honest, and generous. G……続きを見る

An examination of how the daily work of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers was organized across three sites on two planets using local Mars time. In 2004, mission scientists and engineers working with N……続きを見る

Are we alone in the universe? If not, where is everybody? An engaging exploration of one of the most important unsolved problems in science. Everything we know about how planets form and how life ar……続きを見る

No habría materia, y sus componentes más elementales aún estarían dispersos por el vasto espacio, de no ser por el llamado "bosón de Higgs", partícula que hasta hace poco era sólo una conjetura teór……続きを見る

A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves. Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitati……続きを見る

Accessible, essential coverage of the latest findings in challenging, speculative, and cutting-edge science, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning leaders in scientific journalism at Quanta Magazine “If y……続きを見る

Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the A……続きを見る

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmosーand a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ……続きを見る

In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin declared "There is nothing new to discover in physics. All that remains is to more accurately measure its quantities" today, hardly anyone would dare say t……続きを見る

How would you like to not only know the best things to think about now, but in thousands, millions and billions of years as well? This book will be like Star Wars™, but much more exciting with reali……続きを見る

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 thought there might be canals filled with water there. Here……続きを見る

Der Mond hat seit dem Aufkommen der modernen Welt die Vorstellungskraft der Menschen bewahrt. Es ist jedoch das einzige in der Neuzeit, dass die Menschen die Mondoberfläche besucht haben. Dies wurde……続きを見る

Think you've read it all and know everything there is to know about the moon flights? Think again! In 1998, the landmark television miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" was first broadcast. In 12……続きを見る

Am 17. Juni 1950 hatten der Bürgermeister Oskar Linke und seine kleine Stieftochter Gabriele, in der Nähe von Haselbach in der DDR eine merkwürdige Begegnung mit einem wärmflaschenförmigen Objekt, z……続きを見る

Balungi explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Think Physics is a series aimed to solving the big problems in physics. The book targets topics that researchers and students spe……続きを見る

Balungi explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Think Physics is a series aimed to solving the big problems in physics. The book targets topics that researchers and students spe……続きを見る

Balungi explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Think Physics is a series aimed to solving the big problems in physics. The book targets topics that researchers and students spe……続きを見る