It is generally believed that most of the matter in the universe is dark, i.e. cannot be detected from the light which it emits (or fails to emit)....

In the first two months of 1958 President Eisenhower ordered the creation of a new department at the Pentagon, the Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

On October 4th 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, inaugurating the Space Age. To the general public and many politicians in the West the small...

In this book the authors gather and present current research in the study of cosmology. Topics discussed include the mysteries of the geometrizatio...

The authors continue the book series 'Contemporary Fundamental Physics' through Nova Science Publishers. The editor is Professor Doctor V. V. Dvoeg...

In this compilation, the theory of gravitational anti-screening is presented as an alternative to the current theory of dark matter. This includes ...

This publication explores the 'space education phenomenon', and how it contributes to STEM betterment by motivating students and facilitating teach...

Space science, often considered the next frontier for exploration, is a body of scientific knowledge as it relates to space exploration; it is some...

Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle w...

In the Spring of 1961 President John Kennedy challenged his country to place humans on the moon and return them to Earth by the end of the decade. ...

This book was written to be intelligible to general readers while also containing facts and figures useful to amateur astronomers at the time of it...

At the end of World War II, the U.S. government transferred Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team of scientists from Germany to America. No one could ...

It has been the aim of the authors to give in this book a brief, simple, and accurate account of the heavens as they are known to astronomers of th...

Not every rock is of an earthly nature. Meteorites are our windows to other worlds, affording us rare glimpses of our own solar system when it was ...

The N1 was the booster rocket for the Soviet manned moon program and was thus the direct counterpart of the Saturn V, the rocket that took American...

A black hole is a point of extreme mass in spacetime with a radius, or event horizon, inside of which all electromagnetic radiation (including ligh...

It is generally believed that most of the matter in the universe is dark, i.e. cannot be detected from the light which it emits (or fails to emit)....

Cosmology deals with the nature of the universe. It can be broadly divided into three great ages. The first began in the 6th century BC with the Py...

Pulsars are stars, a significant part of whose observed energy output is not continuous but is emitted as distinct flashes or pulses of electromagn...

In 2015 author Robert Godwin revealed the story of William Leitch an almost unknown Scottish/Canadian scientist who in 1861 suggested that rockets ...