Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe

Prepare for liftoff with a sweeping new book on the universe from the world's most celebrated astrophysicist, brimming with wit, authority, and laugh-out-loud humor.

Filled with 5,000 tantalizing facts and more than 300 charts, maps, and photographs, this book offers a dazzling look at the cosmos from our home planet to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Strap in for a thrilling journey through our solar system to the edge of the cosmos. This alluring treasury of 5,000 facts will take you there and back again, learning and laughing all the way.

With an eye-popping design and bold illustrations, Lost in Space takes on humanity’s exploration of the universe—telescopes, space missions, planets, moons, exoplanets, stars, galaxies, and more—backed by signature scientific know-how and a large dose of hilarity. In these pages, you’ll discover that:

100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second.
If you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you’d weigh 380 pounds on Jupiter.
In 500 billion years, our sun will become a red giant star and expand to 100 times its original size.
In 1999, astronomers discovered five exoplanets orbiting the same sun.
Astronomers estimate there are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

Bursting with cool space photos, breathtaking archival images, infographics, moon maps, and a plethora of pop culture icons, Lost in Space is not just a journey—it’s a trip!

THE LATEST BOOK - adapted from the Prologue

I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and servant of those who are cosmically curious. My latest book is "Take Me To Your Leader: Perspectives on Your first Alien Encounter." When a space Alien demands, “Take me to your leader!” what should you do? We presume it wants to meet the person in charge: The President. The Prime Minister. The Monarch. The Pope. Eavesdropping on our cultural norms, the Aliens might instead conclude that pop culture icons were in charge, such as Oprah, or Taylor Swift. Think of "Take Me To Your Leader" as a book of etiquette and scientifically infused insights for that first encounter, from an astrophysicist who wants to meet the Aliens as badly as you do.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Neil deGrasse Tyson was born in New York City the same week NASA was founded. His interest in the universe traces back to age 9, after a first visit to the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History. He was educated in the public schools of New York City through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. And after an BA in Physics from Harvard and a PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia and a Postdoctoral research fellowship at Princeton, Tyson became the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, where he has served since 1996.

"Bursting with insights—often quite funny—that will spark the imaginations of readers young and old; one can eat it up in a long sitting or sporadically thumb through it and be dazzled by its revelations and colorful images." —Starred review, Kirkus Reviews