Astronomy

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Narrated By Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.

Cosmos

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others

Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black Holes

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Stephen Hawking
• Narrated By John Sackville
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite, or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos, from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the big bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory.

The Greatest Story Ever Told - So Far: Why Are We Here?

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Lawrence M. Krauss
• Narrated By Lawrence Krauss

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision of nature - and how we find our place within it.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Forces of Nature

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
• Narrated By Samuel West
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Professor Brian Cox uncovers some of the most extraordinary natural events on Earth and in the universe and beyond. From the immensity of the universe and the roundness of Earth to the form of every single snowflake, the forces of nature shape everything we see. Pushed to extremes, the results are astonishing. In seeking to understand the everyday world, the colours, structure, behaviour and history of our home, we develop the knowledge and techniques necessary to step beyond the everyday.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
• Narrated By Michael Butler Murray
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.

Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 20 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Richard Wolfson

"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics.

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Andrew Chaikin
• Narrated By Bronson Pinchot

Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.

Planet X: The 2017 Arrival

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 52 mins)
• By David Meade
• Narrated By Dean Wendt
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

This book is a compendium of information from every sphere - astronomical, scientific, the Book of Revelation and geopolitics. It contains absolutely amazing revelations that direct us to one precise point in time in 2017. Planet X is a cryptogram and this book contains the keys necessary to decode it. When everything is considered together, it fits together perfectly like a watch.

A Short Biography of the Astronomer Edwin Hubble: 30 Minute Book Series, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (44 mins)
• By Doug West
• Narrated By Gregory Diehl
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Edwin Hubble was a man ahead of his time. For him only astronomy really mattered. He took advantage of the opportunity given to him to use the most advanced telescope of his time to determine the truth behind the most distant clouds of light visible to Earth-based observers. His major discoveries changed our knowledge of our place in the universe forever. His determination that the universe is expanding served as the foundation for the big bang theory.

Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

• ABRIDGED (4 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Stephen Hawking
• Narrated By Simon Prebble

Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, Stephen Hawking has opened our minds to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. Now he returns to shed new light on the darkest region of space and time...and to reveal an extraordinary array of possibilities for our understanding of the universe.

Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
• Narrated By Joel Richards
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin. The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors.

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
• Narrated By Kevin Kenerly
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. From the first image of a galaxy birth to Spirit rover's exploration of Mars, to the discovery of water on one of Jupiter's moons, coauthors Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith conduct a galvanizing tour of the cosmos with clarity and exuberance.

My Favorite Universe

• ORIGINAL (6 hrs and 14 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson

What forces molded the universe? Are those forces still at work, removing, changing, or adding heavenly bodies even as we gaze upward? Will humanity, and Earth itself, one day be gone? Are we alone? In an era when science journalism is perhaps more thorough and ambitious than ever before, fascinating explorations of questions like these seem available to us almost every day - provided we have a working understanding of the scientific theories on which they're based.

The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence

• ORIGINAL (25 hrs and 15 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Robert M. Hazen
• Narrated By Professor Robert M. Hazen

This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen. A major theme is how minerals and life coevolved, leading to the unprecedented mineral diversity on our world compared to the other planets in the solar system. Professor Hazen tells this epic story in 48 action-packed lectures that take you from the big bang to the formation of the solar system to the major milestones that marked the evolution of Earth and life.

The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 3 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Narrated By Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everything we now know about the universe - from the behavior of quarks to the birth of galaxies - has come from people who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of modern science, great minds have turned to testing and experimentation rather than mere thought as a way of grappling with some of the universe's most vexing dilemmas. So what is our latest picture of some of the most inexplicable features of the universe? What still remains to be uncovered and explored by today's scientists?

How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Janna Levin
• Narrated By Christine Williams

The gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin sets out to determine the size of the universe, along the way providing an intimate look at the day-to-day life of a globe-trotting physicist. Nimbly synthesizing geometry, topology, and chaos and string theories, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the Big Bang may one day reveal the size and shape of the cosmos.

Summary of Cosmos by Carl Sagan

• UNABRIDGED (29 mins)
• By FlashBooks Book Summaries
• Narrated By Dean Bokhari

Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the 14 billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness.

Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Govert Schilling, Martin Rees
• Narrated By Joel Richards
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, capture his elusive ripples, and launch an era of gravitational-wave astronomy that promises to explain, more vividly than ever before, our universe's structure and origin. The quest for gravitational waves involved years of risky research and many personal and professional struggles that threatened to derail one of the world's largest scientific endeavors.

Summary of Neil deGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Key Takeaways & Analysis

• UNABRIDGED (34 mins)
• By Sumoreads
• Narrated By Michael London Anglado

The universe is as daunting as it is expansive. How did it all come to be? What is it made of? What is our place in the history of the cosmos? These are questions that many would consider far out of their depth; mysteries only comprehensible to the brilliant scientific minds of a Newton or an Einstein. However, in his audiobook Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, best-selling author and renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, illustrates how the greatest mysteries of the universe are accessible....

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
• Narrated By Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan

The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.

Universe: The Solar System and Beyond

• UNABRIDGED (43 mins)
• By My Ebook Publishing House
• Narrated By Matt Montanez
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Experience the cosmos as never before with Universe: The Solar System and Beyond. Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then deep inside) each of its eight planets, and even an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets.

Rational Science Vol. V: Introducing Rope Hypothesis and Thread Theory

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Monk E. Mind
• Narrated By David Gilmore
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Monk E. Mind uses the rational scientific method to expose mainstream "scientific" nonsense, and present an underlying physical mechanism for all of reality.

The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory
• Narrated By Scott Parazynski, Homer Hickam
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

An epic memoir from a man whose life is defined by exploration and innovation, The Sky Below re-creates some of the most unforgettable adventures of our time. From dramatic, high-risk spacewalks to author Scott Parazynski's death-defying quest to summit Mount Everest - his body ravaged by a career in space - listeners will experience the life of an elite athlete, physician, and explorer.

Comet

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
• Narrated By Seth MacFarlane, Bahni Turpin

Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark.

Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet? Are comets the building blocks from which worlds are formed? Comet is an enthralling adventure, indispensable for anyone who has ever gazed up at the heavens and wondered why.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?