Astronomy

In this book, children will learn about the structure and properties of the Sun, as well as the planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. All inform...

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, constrained by fears of nuclear holocaust, turned a dangerous confrontation into a unique compet...

Quantums are ultra-small particles, the building blocks of “everything”; space is trillions of stars and constantly expanding galaxies. Life in the vast expa...

Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Lai...

Who are we? Where did we come from? Where we are going? The answers to these questions have changed as humanity has matured. At every stage of this journey, ...

Failing engines, confusing coordinates, lost orbital calculations - these strange and sometimes controversial troubles have become part of the history of spa...

Tim Peake enjoys marathon running, mountaineering and skiing, raising his son and going caving in West Sussex. Tim also qualified for the European Space Agen...

Popular science account of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It tells about methods of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, about experi...

Zhanna Levin has set herself a difficult task - to explain to an inquisitive but not very knowledgeable reader about black holes (which, of course, everyone ...