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The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer…

Rijk geillustreerd overzicht van bekende incidenten, boeken en theorieen rond UFO-waarnemingen.

Scholarly but accessible, University of Colorado geology professor Jakosky's study of the possibility of extraterrestrial life has an organization that reflects its origin as an undergraduate course called "Extraterrestrial Life." Each chapter reads…

A thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling account of science's search for extraterrestrial life gives clear evidence of the existence of alien civilizations and reveals the distant planetary systems found by powerful telescopes.

From Publishers Weekly Shostak is the Public Programs Scientist for the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. In this fascinating speculative book, he builds a careful case for the importance of the institute's work,…

Only a few years ago, astronomers were uncertain whether planets might orbit stars other than the sun. In the past few years, though, the experimental data has practically rushed in. In Worlds Unnumbered, Donald Goldsmith explains exactly how…

In this golden age of astronomy, new discoveries have proliferated in the past year: life on Mars, an ocean on Europa, and planets around other stars. On the heels of Goldsmith's The Hunt for Life on Mars comes this exciting account of the new…

Around four billion years ago, natural chemical reactions led to the formation of organic molecules in the Earth's waters. From these, nucleic acids emerged, then cells, then multicellular organisms, and, ultimately, the astonishing biodiversity on…

Op heldere en systematische wijze wordt de kennis over het ontstaan van de mensheid voor een breed publiek toegankelijk gemaakt