As he says in the forward to his new "1,000 Facts About Space" book, new technologies now let us see the moon, stars, planets, asteroids, ... At least 150 asteroids have their own moons.

At the Colgate University Library you can check out the book “Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution” by Richard Whittle, the book “The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s ...

Asteroids and their valuable raw materials are our next frontier, says astrophysicist Martin Elvis. In his new book on asteroid exploration, he explains the motives and reasoning behind this ...

Asteroids are left over from the early solar system. Here's how they get destroyed. In October 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached the asteroid Bennu. The probe, which had been orbiting ...

Drone: Remote Control Warfare by Hugh Gusterson (MIT Press, £18.95) In this excellent book, the anthropologist Hugh Gusterson argues that drones have fundamentally transformed the nature of war. Their ...

The beautifully illustrated — aimed at children and middle-schoolers, but just as fascinating for adults — manages to answer questions you've always pondered, and ones you never thought to ask.