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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…

Several major breakthroughs have helped contribute to the emerging field of astrobiology. Focusing on these developments, this fascinating book explores some of the most important problems in this field. It examines how planetary systems formed, and…

Zijn wij alleen in het heelal? Die vraag houdt ons al duizenden jaren bezig. Het zoeken naar een antwoord werd lange tijd overgelaten aan de verbeeldingskracht van filosofen, dorpsgekken en sciencefictionauteurs. De afgelopen twintig jaar is daar…

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…

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,…

Throughout the twentieth century, from the furor over Percival Lowell's claim of canals on Mars to the sophisticated Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence, otherworldly life has often intrigued and occasionally consumed science and the public.…

If extra-terrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl broadcast or a stray transmission from the Playboy channel. But, of course, they might seem equally…

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…

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.