Over the past decade, astronomers, planetary scientists, and cosmologists have answered - or are closing in on the answers to …
I remember sitting spellbound, watching the movie When Worlds Collide. Two planets hurled through space toward Earth while scientists and …
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable …
I noticed that this book, which was published in 2004, had not yet received even one customer review. I read …
For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a …
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe is a self-contained exposition of the applications of kinetic theory to basic problems in …
This book conveys the thrill of observing strange and surprising features of the Universe, and the satisfaction gained by understanding …
The legendary Isaac Asimov starts what is perhaps the finest of all his books with a simple query: How finely …
What happened before the primordial fire of the Big Bang: a theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.In the …
Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, …
This book takes the reader on an exploration of the structure and evolution of our universe. The basis for our …
An alternative, ground-breaking guide to harnessing the life-transforming power found at the place where the worlds of quantum science and …
The Third Edition of 'Introduction to Cosmology' provides an authoritative yet concise study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting …
The birth of the Universe, and its subsequent evolution, is an exciting blend of Cosmology, Particle Physics and Thermodynamics. This …
Recent discoveries in astronomy, especially those made with data collected by satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the …
For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere to explain the cosmos,first recording the movements of the Moon 25,000 …
The Universal Force conveys the excitement of science and nature's mysteries. It describes gravitation as seen by examining the achievements …
From where -- and what -- does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? …
Magnetic fields permeate our vast universe, urging electrically charged particles on their courses, powering solar and stellar flares, and focusing …
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is …
