Interviews about Space Science

Stand-up comedian Josie Long, performing in the cabaret tent, feels that politics and environmental messages have a...

Chopo Ma explains the Cosmic Positioning System used to locate our satellites...

Professor Andy Fabian, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, explains who the RAS are, the important role of...

Cosmic Vision is ESA's way of setting out the future of space missions. Mark McCaughrean explains more...

Astronomers and Cosmologists seek to understand the origins of the universe – but as this was billions of years ago, we...

In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted that Gravitational Waves, these are ripples in the very fabric of space and time,...

Solar physics is a big priority - but what's so important about our closest star? Dr Lucie Green, from UCL's...

Jim wild describes how we can forecast the weather in space and plan for any extreme events that may be coming up...

Professor Andrew Collier Cameron discusses some surprising discoveries from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP)...

William Bains describes a new way to think about the search for extra terrestrial life using biochemistry...

Professor John Brown explains why 2010 is an important year for astronomy at Glasgow University, and gives a brief...

Where do stars and planets come from? Mark Mcaughrean explains all...

The Rosetta mission aims to do something never doen before, and that's land on a comet. Professor Ian Wright...

Dr Matt Balme dicusses the changes that sculpt the surface of Mars...

Chris Smith finds out about the most distant object ever discovered and how this has improved our understanding of our...

We speak to Professor Robert Kennicutt: one of the first to describe the Hubble constant and now recipient of the...

Thursday 14th May, all being well, we are going to see the launch of the European Space Agency’s Herschel and Planck...

This week in science history saw, in 1990, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the largest and most advanced...

On the 7th of April 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched to orbit and survey Mars. It has supplied vital...

This week in 1853 saw the death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and father of the Doppler effect - one of the...

Astronomical objects often pass by the Earth. This week saw DD45 pass within the orbit of the Moon, only twice as far...

Often, technology designed for space travel gives us benefits down here on Earth. This is one example of the opposite...

We're celebrating the International Year of Astronomy - 400 years since Galileo first made his astronomical...

The universe surprised us recently when NASA's GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) discovered a new dwarf galaxy...