Explores the science behind planets, stars, galaxies, and other celestial phenomena. Includes more than 60 experiments and projects.

Introduces the planet Mars, with information about its atmosphere, surface features, and exploration by NASA spacecraft.

This book illustrates how space probes provide us with facts about the celestial bodies in our solar system and examines how these probes help us explore the universe by detecting black holes, star clusters, and nebulae.

Discusses the first men and women who traveled into space, from Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to John Glenn. The world held its breath in July 1969 as it watched the first humans leave footprints on the Moon. Decades later, the lure of space exploration still sparks our imaginations. How did it all begin, and where else will it lead? This series chronicles the history of space exploration, from the invention of the rocket in China in the thirteenth...

A pictorial record of the outstanding space achievement of the 20th century. Includes photographs of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and their many moons.

This book explores the history of space stations, from the first space station, the Soviet's "Salyut 1" to the long-lived Soviet "Mir," to the shorter career of "Skylab," the U.S. space station.