The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

"They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down." —Publishers Weekly

Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of our planet. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vanguard of the new field of astrobio...