Popular astronomy & space books

The new, digitally re-mastered second edition vastly improves the clarity and definition of the original photographs...  Read More >>

This book details the almost forgotten story of the first manned U. S. spaceflight, Freedom 7, flown by Cdr. Alan...  Read More >>

""Partners in Space"" focuses on the early to late 1990s, a time in the post-Soviet era when relations between East...  Read More >>

This book explores intriguing cases in which astronomy has been used as a tool to solve mysteries from art, history,...  Read More >>

Satellite Orbits -Models, Methods, and Applications has been written as a compre­ hensive textbook that guides the...  Read More >>

Pascal programmes for various astronomical problems are available on the floppy disk that accompanies the book....  Read More >>

In this novel, the author combines topics related to state-of-the-art research in astrobiology with fictional elements...  Read More >>

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This volume tells the fascinating story of Man's conceptualization of the solar system from the earliest times,...  Read More >>

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This beautifully structured book presents the essentials of William and Caroline Herschel’s pioneering achievements...  Read More >>

Irish mathematician and astronomer Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) excelled in writing for a general readership....  Read More >>

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Astronomical guides were available in the early nineteenth century, but it was rare to find examples in English...  Read More >>

Astronomical guides were available in the early nineteenth century, but it was rare to find examples in English...  Read More >>

This book examines and explains cataclysmic and unusual events at the very frontier of our knowledge of stellar...  Read More >>

New Dimensions of Doctor Who brings together experts on the Doctors,...  Read More >>

Nearly forty years passed between the Apollo moon landings, the grandest accomplishment of a government-run space...  Read More >>

Astronomical discovery involves more than detecting something previously unseen. The reclassification of Pluto as...  Read More >>

The Space Shuttle has been the dominant machine in the U.S. space program for thirty years and has generated a great...  Read More >>

A valuable reference that fills a number of niches including that of a buyer's guide, technical desk reference and...  Read More >>

This book details the methods and practices of visual amateur astronomy and explains how to produce an accurate...  Read More >>

When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the center of Creation and saw...  Read More >>

“Binocular Astronomy”, 2nd edition, extends its coverage of small and medium binoculars to large and giant (i.e.,...  Read More >>