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Out-of-This-World Books

Check out this cosmic collection of non-fiction space books!

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  • Out of This World and Into the Next

    a Physicist's Guide to Space Exploration

    Marais, Adriana,
    This is a theoretical physicist's grand tour of how life emerged on Earth and, perhaps most importantly, how human civilization will begin expanding beyond our home planet.
    Book, 2025New York : Pegasus Books, 2025. — 523.1 MARAI
  • An astrophysicist's reflection on how shifts in perspective have transformed our understanding of the cosmos.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025] — 523.109 VAUDO
  • Space Oddities

    the Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

    Cliff, Harry (Harry Victor),
    An eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024] — 523.1 CLIFF
  • Deep Space

    Beyond the Solar System to the Edge of the Universe and the Beginning of Time

    Schilling, Govert,
    Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this mind-bending trip to nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the edge of the observable universe.
    Book, 2024New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2024. — 520 SCHIL
  • The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide

    a Futuristic Journey Through the Cosmos

    Bell, Jim, 1965-
    This visually spectacular book brings you closer to an interplanetary voyage than ever before! Following in the footsteps of Jim Bell's successful The Space Book, Mars 3-D, and Moon 3-D, this large-format volume offers space enthusiasts an…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Sterling, [2018] — 523.1 BELL
  • Solar System

    a Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun

    Chown, Marcus,
    A guide to the solar system provides a photographic tour of its eight planets, as well as asteroids and comets, and presents its history from its birth to the present.
    Book, 2022New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2022. — 523.2 CHOWN
  • Cosmos: Possible Worlds travels through more than 14 billion years of cosmic evolution and into an astonishing future where probes travel by light beams to distant stars, helping us solve enduring mysteries of our origins and dream toward an…
    Book, 2020Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2020] — 520 DRUYA
  • Meteorite

    How Stones From Outer Space Made Our World

    Gregory, Tim (Geologist),
    In Meteorite, geologist Tim Gregory shows that beneath the charred crusts of these celestial stones lies a staggering diversity of rock types
    Book, 2020New York : Basic Books, 2020. — 523.51 GREGO
  • Space Exploration

    a History in 100 Objects

    Odenwald, Sten F.,
    From Galileo's telescope to the International Space Station - a stunningly photo-filled tour through the milestones of space exploration, examining iconic objects from Sputnik to Skylab and their effect on what we know and how we think about space.
    Book, 2019New York : The Experiment, [2019] — 520.9 ODENW
  • Hubble's Universe

    Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

    Dickinson, Terence,
    Building on the first edition, this book features 330 high resolution celestial portraits selected by bestselling astronomy writer Terence Dickinson, a four-page fold-out of the Andromeda Galaxy and an illuminating narrative that brings to life…
    Book, 2017Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2017. — 520 DICKI
  • Packed with real science and fueled by imagination, a beautifully illustrated guide to traveling in our solar system.
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017] — 523.2 KOSKI
  • Stars & Planets

    the Complete Guide to the Stars, Constellations, and the Solar System

    Ridpath, Ian,
    In this newly updated and expanded edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the night sky as never before, providing novice stargazers and professional astronomers alike with the most informative, user-friendly,…
    Book, 2017Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2017. — 523 RIDPA
  • The Planets

    Photographs From the Archives of NASA

    Nataraj, Nirmala
    The Planets features more than 200 stunning photographs of our solar system from the archives of NASA, each paired with a detailed caption
    Book, 2017San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2017] — 523.4 NATAR
  • What We See in the Stars

    An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky

    Oseid, Kelsey,
    An illustrated guide to the heavens combines the myths, historic significance, and various interpretations of objects seen in the night sky, including the recognized constellations, meteors, eclipses, planets, and moons.
    Book, 2017California : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2017] — 523.8 OSEID
  • This book looks at all the major players, including our more familiar neighbors - the Sun, the planets and their moons - the occasional visitors to our planet - asteroids, meteors and comets - as well as distant stars and what might be beyond our…
    Book, 2015New York : Pegasus Books, 2015. — 523.2 NORTH
  • The Hubble Cosmos

    25 Years of New Vistas in Space

    DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
    This color-illustrated work for general readers and students in late middle school and up features explosive images of galaxies and other heavenly forms from the Hubble Space Telescope over the past 25 years.
    Book, 2015Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2015. — 522.2919 DEVOK