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We are the Martians: Connecting Cosmology with Biology

Giovanni F Bignami - Science - 2012 - 128 pages
For many thousands of years, human beings have been asking themselves whether they are more frightened of being alone in the universe or of the thought that there is someone ...
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe

Louisa Preston - Science - 2016 - 288 pages
'Highly recommended' Financial Times Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds ...
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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing ...

Jeffrey Bennett - Science - 2011 - 250 pages
The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology ...
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Black Holes and the Universe

Igorʹ Dmitrievich Novikov - Nature - 1995 - 194 pages
A popular account of the properties and significance of black holes.
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty ...

Stephen Webb - Science - 2002 - 294 pages
In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations must be present ...
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Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology

Chris Impey - Science - 2010
With over 500 planets now known to exist beyond the Solar System, spacecraft heading for Mars, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, this timely book ...
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Evolving Cosmos

Govert Schilling - Nature - 2004 - 160 pages
Science journalist Govert Schilling takes the reader on a whirlwind journey through time by describing the evolution of the cosmos, from the beginning of space and time ...
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Living with the Stars: How the Human Body is Connected to the Life Cycles of ...

Karel Schrijver, Iris Schrijver - Science - 2015 - 288 pages
Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We are quite literally not who ...
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Worlds Beyond: The Thrill of Planetary Exploration as Told by Leading Experts

Alan Stern - Nature - 2002 - 194 pages
Leading planetary scientists give personal accounts of their work, and their desire to understand and explore worlds beyond our own.
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Extraterrestrials: Where Are They?

Ben Zuckerman, Michael H. Hart - Nature - 1995 - 260 pages
Experts critically examine the belief that other intelligent life exists in our galaxy.
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