Dark Matter: Poems of Space

Judith Palmer

Pioneering astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell reads “Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz:

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin

“The climb is personal, a truly human endeavor, and the real expedition pixelates into individuals, not Platonic forms.”

Cosmologist Janna Levin on the transcendence of science, the climb toward truth, and why scientists do what they do – gorgeous read:

Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

Priyamvada Natarajan

Beautiful read on cosmology, the essence of science, and the strange story of how the term “black hole” was born:

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

Janna Levin

“The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.”

Is the universe infinite or finite? Mind-bending read from astrophysicist Janna Levin, who sets out to answer the question in letters to her mother:

A Graphic Cosmogony

Some of today’s most exciting illustrators and graphic artists imagine the origin of the universe and how our world came to be:

Einstein’s God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit

Krista Tippett

“How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at… Science and religion… ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither could alone.”

Einstein’s God – mind-bending, soul-stretching read on free will, science, and spirituality:

Cosmigraphics

Michael Benson

4,000 years of our quest to understand the universe and our place in it, in rare cosmic maps – from the first moon map to the galaxy that inspired Van Gogh’s Starry Night to NASA’s modern visualizations:

The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos

John Brockman

Some of today’s most remarkable scientific minds explore the mysteries of the cosmos, from dark matter to multiple dimensions – plus, an important note on gender equality in science: