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.

The Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded its 2011 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Nathan Sivin for his landmark volume “Granting the ...

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

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 ...

Even in this age of e-books, there are times when you just want to hold a good book in your hand — and the holiday season is definitely one of those times. It's even better when the physical ...

Whether you are giving gifts to others or to yourself this holiday season, this list of the best popular science books of 2018 about astronomy, physics and mathematics is a great place to start ...

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.

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.

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.