If you're a space enthusiast, thankfully there are scientists who wrote simple, sophisticated yet mesmerising books that won't bore you to death, unlike textbooks, and still teach you basic ...

Gravitational waves take the top spot in Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s yearly round-up of popular science books related to physics and astrophysics. In 2017, we were treated to books about ...

Physics professors Brian Koberlein and David Meisel take a “back-of-the-envelope” approach to astrophysics and computation in a textbook designed for undergraduate students. Koberlein, senior lecturer ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone presents his annual compilation of new popular science books related to particle physics and astrophysics. The array of particle physics and astrophysics books Symmetry ...

Is it time for end-of-the-year lists already? At Physics World HQ, the answer is a definite “yes”, and we’re kicking off the season with our annual list of the year’s best physics books. As in ...

For more than 30 years, the pioneering X-ray astrophysicist Walter Lewin taught core curriculum physics courses to undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For this alone, he ...

Time is relative, but some of us still don't have enough of it to fully take in the most salient aspects of such topics as dark matter, exoplanets, the Big Bang, and why so many objects in outer space ...

PUNE: With the launch of the third and last volume of Theoretical Astrophysics, penned by city-based astrophysicist Thanu Padmanabhan and published by the Cambridge University Press in Cambridge on ...