With holiday gift-giving season right around the corner, one frequent request I get is to recommend some good astronomy books for the relative beginner. Yes, books. You may remember them from way ...

Perhaps the book I’d recommend more than any other isn’t even an astronomy book, but a delightfully written autobiography of one of the great amateur astronomers of the 20th century.

Later, Sydney Chapman and Julius Bartels included the idea of a twice-yearly aurora borealis season in their book Geomagnetism, which was the de facto textbook on the topic for decades.

Books ‘Accidental Astronomy’ Review: Cosmic Surprises Scientists who watch the skies have learned much about our universe through serendipity and chance encounters.

McTier is a rarity in astronomy circles—a Black woman in a field estimated to be 90 percent white. In fact, a 2020 Forbes article reported that only about 2 percent of astronomers are Black.

Hand-book of Astronomy. Parts II. and III. ... The second volume deals with instrumental and practical astronomy, and in it we find spectroscopical astronomy interpolated; ...

An ancient book on astronomy from the 1500s sold for more than £10,000 ($12,200), as a "private international buyer" triumphed over intense competition at a U.K. auction.

Two astronomy books from the Renaissance have found their way to a new home, where students will try to read a possible hidden text within one of them. Skip to main content.

A rare 16th Century astronomy book written by a Welshman has sold for £10,000 at auction. A first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde - the man who also invented the equals sign ...