Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beyond Pluto has made a groundbreaking measurement of the Universe’s background ... said Marc Postman of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore ...

In recent decades, we've learned huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes—both on Earth and in space—has been a key part of this process ...