Astronomy

You are holding in your hands a collection of Stephen Hawking's Reith lectures on black holes, given on BBC Radio 4. It is difficult to imagine who could tal...

Two thousand years ago, the Sun was a character in many legends, a mythical spirit or even a god. For a long time it was believed that the daylight moves aro...

Arthur Miller, a famous American historian of science (now lives in London), talks about the outstanding discoveries of astrophysicists of the 20th century. ...

In the mid-19th century, the Harvard Observatory began hiring women as calculators to interpret the results of nightly astronomical observations performed by...

Our ideas about black holes are most often based on popular myths and a few well-known scientific facts. Describing the history of black hole research, Chris...

How do mathematical models explain space? Ian Stewart, winner of several awards for the popularization of science, presents a fascinating guide to the mechan...

An appendix to the novel "Rope" is an ethnographic study that formed the basis of the novel and is mentioned in the last chapter as the heroine's report at a...

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times ...

The book presents detailed and edited recordings of some lectures given in recent years to students of various specialties. The basis for them was the interf...

Timed to release for the 15th Anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, this is the epic true story of one of the most dramatic, unforgettable a...