Interviews about Space Science

Should we ever want to visit our astronomical neighbours, we will first need to get over a lot of technological,...

How do we spot planets in the glare of their parent star? Ben Oppenheimer is associate curator of astrophysics at the...

Fact Impact: A high-speed run-down of facts about Galaxies

The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, should help us to answer some of the big outstanding questions about our universe...

Although it’s a popular conversation topic – it’s very tricky to predict the English weather. But what about if you...

What is round and measures 1 billionth of a millimetre across? Yes, you guessed it, it’s the electron. Theories have...

Pulsar hunters search for tell tale repeated signals in masses of data - and sometimes they spot something unusual....

Fact Impact: A high-speed run-down of facts about Mars...

In this week's Planet Earth, Sue Nelson has been along to find out about a European Space Agency mission called...

Dr Dan Stark explains what we're looking for at the very edge of our observational limits...

Louise Ogden continues her series looking at our large telescopes by introducing the Chandra x-ray observatory...

What goes on at an Institute of Astronomy open day? Carolin Crawford explains what happens once the doors are opened...