Without qualification, cosmic rays usually mean the primary cosmic rays of extra-terrestrial origin that continually bombard the earth and consist ...

The emergence, existence and development of the surrounding world, both on Earth and throughout the universe, are due to the gravitational interact...

In this book, the authors present current research in galactic study including its evolution, morphology and dynamics. Topics included in this comp...

The sixth manned Gemini mission was to be the first to emphatically prove that two spacecraft could meet and join in space. The task of pulling off...

Text in German. This volume contains a complete re-edition and study of the 'Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars'. This handbook on Religious A...

Book & micro DVD. In 1919 the Gaumont Motion Picture Studio created the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel...

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles -- a plasma -- ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It consists mostly of electrons and pr...

This is the story of SpaceX. In the pre-dawn hours of 22 May 2012, a conventional looking rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on what was only it...

Is there such a thing as a fundamental reality, something which was around before our universe came into existence and which will still remain when...

This book presents readers with the latest research in interferometry. Chapters include research done on an approach that can be used to identify t...

This book is an introductory text in General Relativity, while also focusing some solutions to the cosmological constant problem, which consists in...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the highest-energy particle collider ever constructed and is considered "one of the great engineering milestones...

A NASA-funded team of scientists has announced that there is evidence of previous life on Mars. This book analyses the results from the meteorite A...

This book identifies the 'lost stars' of Bayer, Lacaille, Flamsteed, and other pioneering astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and explains ...

Even fifty years later there are still important stories waiting to be told about how humans first walked on another world; such as the one in this...

This book's main themes focus on the environmental evolution of Mars and the exploration of the planet. Particular emphasis is given to the underst...

If you always thought that it was Giovanni Schiaparelli who first coined the phrase 'Canali' pertaining to the straight lines he appeared to observ...

Neutron stars represent natural laboratories where all kinds of processes and reactions take place in unusual and extremely dense matter. Neutron s...

In the 1930s scientists discovered that the universe is expanding and that it is quite old. The observation of hydrogen lines in the spectrum of th...

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

Book & CD. Humans have probably always strived to understand the world around them. And the heavens have drawn rapt attention- - perhaps becaus...

Part of the New Readers Series, this large-print book explains stars, planets and night skies. The basics of astronomy - from stars to galaxies and...

Super Explorers take you up into the stars to see the wonders of the night sky above: • For the best night sky watching, leave the city and go into...

A boy growing up in America during the Great Depression of the 1930s -- ambitious, inquisitive, blessed with endless energy -- had the world at his...