Astrophysics Books

The Light Ages
by Seb Falk
Review
The Light Ages
by Seb Falk
Review
Light in the Darkness
by Heino Falcke
Review
Reimagining Time
by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub
Review
Genesis
by Guido Tonelli
Review
Hawking Hawking
by Charles Seife
Review
The Disordered Cosmos
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Review
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
by Frank Wilczek
Review
Robots in Space
by Dr Ezzy Pearson
Review
The Mission
by David W. Brown
Review
Probable Impossibilities
by Alan Lightman
Review
First Light
by Emma Chapman
Review
The Shadow of the Black Hole
by John W. Moffat
Review
How to Astronaut
by Terry Virts
Review
The Sun: a Very Short Introduction
by Philip Judge
Review
A Series of Fortunate Events
by Sean B Carroll
Review
Black Hole Survival Guide
by Janna Levin
Review
The Human Cosmos
by Jo Marchant
Review
The End of Everything
by Katie Mack
Review
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
by Sara Seager
Review
What Stars Are Made Of
by Donovan Moore
Review
How to Die in Space
by Paul Sutter
Review
The View from Space
by Richard B. Leshner, Thor Hogan
Review
Alien Oceans
by Kevin Hand
Review
Galileo: And the Science Deniers
by Mario Livio
Review
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
by Colin Stuart
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
The Universe
by Lonely Planet
Review
The Contact Paradox
by Keith Cooper
Review
Until the End of Time
by Brian Greene
Review
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science
by Alexander Boxer
Review
Chasing New Horizons
by Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
50 Things to See in the Sky
by Sarah Barker
Review
Dark Skies
by Lonely Planet
Review
At the Edge of Time
by Dan Hooper
Review
How to Love the Universe
by Stefan Klein
Review
Planetarium: Welcome to the Museum
by Raman Prinja
Review
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
by Donald Goldsmith
Review
Mass Vortex Theory
by S. Seaver
Review
The Space Race: The Journey to the Moon and Beyond
by Sarah Cruddas
Review
The Secret Lives of Planets: A User’s Guide to the Solar System
by Paul Murdin
Review
More Things in the Heavens
by Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt
Review
The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe
by Brian Clegg
Review
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
by Sarah Parcak
Review
Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
by Allen Esterson and David C. Cassidy
Review
The Crowd and the Cosmos
by Chris Lintott
Review
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
by Ron Cowen
Review
Something Deeply Hidden
by Sean Carroll
Review
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe
by John Johnson Jr.
Review
The Number of the Heavens
by Tom Siegfried
Review
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
by Richard Panek
Review
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
by Charles Fishman
Review
No Shadow of a Doubt
by Daniel Kennefick
Review
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
by Bob Berman
Review
Sun and Moon: A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography
by Mark Holborn
Review
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
by David Whitehouse
Review
Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science
by Robyn Arianrhod
Review
Universe Owners’ Workshop Manual: From 13.8 billion years ago to the infinite future – An insight into the study of the universe and our place in it
by David M Harland
Review
Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
by Chad Orzel
Review
Einstein’s Monsters – The Life and Times of Black Holes
by Chris Impey
Review
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
by Michael Wall
Review
Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
by Seth Fletcher
Review
Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race (3d Stereoscopic Book)
by David J. Eicher and Brian May
Review
How to Speak Science: Gravity, relativity and other ideas that were crazy until proven brilliant
by Bruce Benamran
Review
How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
by Colin Stuart
Review
The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future
by Roger D. Launius
Review
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking
by Stephen Hawking
Review
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
by Natalie Starkey
Review
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
by Peter Atkins
Review
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
by Charles S. Cockell
Review
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
by Adam Frank
Review
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor
by Brian Keating
Review
Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree
by Jillian Scudder
Review
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
by Freeman Dyson
Review
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Review
Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory (ISSI Scientific Report Series)
by Vincent Minier, Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Vincent Bontems, Thijs de Graauw, Mike Griffin, Frank Helmich, Göran Pilbratt, and Sergio Volonte
Review
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Random House Large Print)
by Michio Kaku
Review
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
by Priyamvada Natarajan
Review
Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World
by Phaidon Editors
Review
In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters
by Jon Larsen
Review
Cosmology for the Curious (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by Delia Perlov and Alex Vilenkin
Review
The Little Book of Black Holes (Science Essentials)
by Steven S. Gubser and Frans Pretorius
Review
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by Scott Kelly
Review
The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe
by Michael Brooks
Review
Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur, Stephen Arthur
Review
The Search For Earth’s Twin
by Stuart Clark
Review
Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Foundational Questions in Science)
by James Owen Weatherall
Review
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
by Jorge Cham
Review
The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein’s Princeton Lectures
by Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Review
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
by Lucas Ellerbroek
Review
Ripples in Spacetime
by Govert Schilling
Review
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Review
Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities since 1945
by David Leverington
Review
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil Degrasse Tyson
Review
Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius
by David Bodanis
Review
The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
by Elizabeth Tasker
Review
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Review
Now: The Physics of Time
by Richard A Muller
Review
The Glass Universe
by Dava Sobel
Review
The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
by Ronald R. Kline
Review
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape (Military and Defence Ethics)
by Jai Galliott
Review
Treasures of the Universe: amateur and professional visions of the cosmos
by André van der Hoeven
Review
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
by Carlo Rovelli
Review
Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
by Jim Baggott
Review
A Sky Wonderful with Stars: 50 Years of Modern Astronomy on Maunakea (A Latitude 20 Book)
by Michael West
Review
Astronomical Measurement: A Concise Guide
by Andy Lawrence
Review
Galactic Encounters: Our Majestic and Evolving Star-System, From the Big Bang to Time’s End
by William Sheehan and Christopher J. Conselice
Review
An Illustrated Guide to Relativity
by Tatsu Takeuchi
Review

Articles

Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really. | Space
Astronomers Focus on Star-Forming Regions in Nearby Galaxies
Can we explain dark matter by adding more dimensions to the universe?
Electron capture supernova spotted four decades after first predicted
Highest-Energy Particles Yet Arrive from Ancient Crab Nebula
LIGO mirrors have been cooled to near their quantum ground state
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
Galactic ‘bridges’ could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered
Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years
How Lobster Eyes Can Help Astronomers Get a Wider View of the Cosmos
Cosmic dawn: scientists hope to peer back in time to see birth of stars
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Come in Two Distinct Flavors
Caution needed when testing Einstein’s general relativity using gravitational waves
A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit
Earth’s aurora origin mystery solved by ‘surfing’ electrons
Simulation Reveals How Magnetism Helps Form Planets
New Map of Local Dark Matter Reveals ‘Bridges’ between Galaxies
Physicists Identify the Engine Powering Black Hole Energy Beams
Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests
Tiny black holes could cause white dwarf stars to explode
Antimatter Stars Could Be Lurking in Milky Way
Physicists get close to taming the chaos of the ‘three-body problem’
Hubble Celebrates Its 31st Birthday with Incredible Image of AG Carinae
ALMA Spots Gravitationally Lensed Rotating Galaxy in Early Universe
Black Holes Obey Information-Emission Limits
Astronomers Directly Image Giant Planet around Young Sun-Like Star
Spinning black holes can be deformed by tidal forces, calculations reveal
X-ray emissions from Uranus are detected for the first time
Record-breaking gamma ray is smoking gun for Milky Way cosmic rays
Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake
Space hurricane observed in the Earth’s upper atmosphere
Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes Into View
Physicists Measure the Gravitational Force between the Smallest Masses Yet
Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Detected in Distant Spiral Galaxy
Mysterious moons Phobos and Deimos formed at the same time as Mars, say researchers
Atomically Precise Sensors Could Detect Another Earth
The first black hole ever discovered is more massive than we thought
New Black Holes Offer Physicists a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
Dark-matter detector result is consistent with previous hint of exotic particles
In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
Discovery of stars sheds new light on dark matter and galactic cannibalism
Mars Rumbles Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows
Giant Galaxies from the Universe’s Childhood Challenge Cosmic Origin Stories
Physicists Narrow Range of Potential Masses for Dark Matter Candidate Particles
Physicists Study How Our Universe Might Have Bubbled Up in the Multiverse
Black Hole Mass Gap Gets Filled By New Discoveries
Stupendously Large Black Holes Could Be Hiding in Universe
Physicists Propose New Way to Extract Energy from Black Holes
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Power Inside a Supernova
Dark-coated Starlink satellites are better but not perfect, say astronomers