From the August 2024 Issue Confessions of an Alien Hunter The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life By Nathalie A Cabrol LR
From the June 2024 Issue The Final Countdown Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Adam Higginbotham LR
From the December 2023 Issue Red Planet & Brown Trout A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? By Kelly and Zach Weinersmith LR
From the September 2023 Issue An Electromagnetic Personality Einstein in Time & Space: A Life in 99 Particles By Samuel Graydon LR
From the August 2021 Issue Slime & Reason Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive By Carl Zimmer LR
From the April 2021 Issue One Giant Leap for Mankind Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space By Stephen Walker
From the November 2020 Issue Red but Not Dead The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World By Sarah Stewart Johnson LR
From the December 2019 Issue Not Rocket Science Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future By Alice Gorman LR
From the July 2019 Issue Space Oddities The Moon: A History for the Future By Oliver Morton Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket By Fraser MacDonald LR
From the May 2019 Issue Fine Figures The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets By Graham Farmelo LR
From the April 2018 Issue More Naples Than Singapore The Order of Time By Carlo Rovelli (Translated by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre)
From the October 2016 Issue Relative Values Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: A Biography By David Bodanis LR
From the June 2016 Issue Astronomical Expense International Space Station: Architecture beyond Earth By David Nixon LR
From the December 2015 Issue In the Shadow of Mercury The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe By Thomas Levenson LR
From the July 2015 Issue Don’t Get Sucked in… Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved By Marcia Bartusiak LR
From the April 2015 Issue Go Forth & Multiply Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise) LR
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