Originally published: Great Britain : Ticktock Media, 2006.

Includes index.

Our Home in Space 6 -- Solar System -- History of the solar system -- Our Changing Views -- Some Space Units -- Orbits and Eccentricity -- Wrong Impressions -- Early Astronomers 8 -- Hipparchus of Rhodes -- Ptolemy of Alexandria -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Tycho Brahe -- Johannes Kepler -- Astronomical discoveries timeline -- Later Astronomers 10 -- Galileo Galilei -- Giovanni Domenico Cassini -- John Flamsteed -- Edmond Halley -- William Herschel -- Edwin Hubble -- Percival Lowell -- Steven Hawking -- Space Sciences -- Astronomical discoveries timeline -- Sun 12 -- Where in the solar system? -- Star Profile -- Structure and layers -- Flares and prominences -- Solar wind -- Photosphere -- Sunspots -- Sun timeline -- Mercury 14 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Surface conditions -- Major features -- Other geological features -- Small and curious -- Distinguishing features -- Temperature -- Spin -- Transit of Mercury -- Mercury timeline -- Venus 16 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Surface conditions -- Major features -- Other geological features -- Transit of Venus -- Daytime viewing -- Reverse spin -- Nearest neighbor -- Circular orbit -- One long day -- Under pressure -- Venus timeline -- Earth 18 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Surface conditions -- Major features -- Other geological features -- Plate tectonics -- Polar ice -- Life -- Earth timeline -- Moon 20 -- Where in the solar system? -- Moon profile -- Lunatics -- Orbit details -- Origin -- Surface conditions -- Major features -- Other geological features -- Near and Far -- Phases of the Moon -- Moon and Tides -- Eclipses -- Moon timeline -- Mars 22 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Surface conditions -- Major features -- Mars maps and physical features -- Martians! -- Mars timeline -- Jupiter 24 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Atmospheric conditions -- Major features -- Other features -- Moon records -- Jupiter's rings -- True giant -- Jupiter's moons -- Speed spin -- Jupiter timeline -- Saturn 26 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Atmospheric conditions -- Major features -- Other features -- Main moons -- Titan -- Rings of Saturn -- Vast but light -- Saturn timeline -- Uranus 28 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Atmospheric conditions -- Major features -- Other features -- Main moons -- On its side -- Rings of Uranus -- Odd little world -- Uranus timeline -- Neptune 30 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Atmosphereic conditions -- Major features -- Other features -- First paper planet -- Naming Neptune -- Voyager visit -- Neptune's rings -- Size and shape -- Neptune timeline -- Pluto 32 -- Where in the solar system? -- Planet profile -- Orbit details -- Pluto's moon -- Is Pluto a true planet? -- Many names -- Plutinos -- Smallest planet -- Odd orbit -- Pluto timeline -- Asteroids 34 -- Asteroid facts -- Asteroid types -- Trojans -- Where do asteroids come from? -- First discoveries -- Strangest asteroids -- Asteroids with moons -- Space probes to asteroids -- Meteors 36 -- Meteorite facts -- Meteors -- Craters -- Meteor showers -- Types of meteorites -- Ten Biggest Meteorites -- Parent Comets -- Best Meteor Showers -- Comets 38 -- Comet facts -- Structure of a comet -- Famous comets -- Where do comets come from? -- Comet orbits -- Comet history -- Some space probes to comets -- Stars 40 -- Star brightness -- Names of stars -- Stars together -- Brightest stars -- Colors and hotness -- Closest stars -- Birth and death of a star -- Star Constellations 42 -- How many constellations? -- Finding names -- Orion -- Signs of the zodiac -- Largest constellations -- Smallest constellations -- Brightest constellations -- Telescopes 44 -- World's biggest telescope -- Types of light -- Telescope parts -- Types of telescope -- Making sharp images -- Space telescopes -- Linking telescopes -- Telescopes of the future -- Telescope timeline -- Milky Way 46 -- Size and shape -- Galaxy profile -- Age of the Milky Way -- Milky Way center -- Many arms -- Speeding stars -- Nearest galaxies -- In a spin -- Future fate -- Galaxies 48 -- Galaxy names -- Galaxy shapes -- Active galaxies -- How galaxies move -- How many galaxies -- Farthest galaxies -- Largest local galaxies -- Universe 50 -- Cosmology -- Dark matter -- Expansion of the universe -- New theories -- Big Bang -- Future of the universe -- Cosmologist timeline -- Human Beings in Space 52 -- Apollo crews -- Vostok -- Gemini -- Mercury -- Apollo -- Soyuz -- Space shuttle -- Space Probes 54 -- Sputnik -- Pioneer -- Venus probes -- Vikings to Mars -- Recent planetery probes -- 10 Early Moon probes -- Living in Space 56 -- Salyut Space Stations -- Skylab -- Mir -- International Space Station.