Interviews about Space Science

Building an instrument to fly on board a satellite is a feat of precision engineering. It’s got to be robust enough to...

Powering space craft is a challenge. Traditional chemical batteries go flat and for deeper space explorations where...

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin brought back the first samples of moon rock in 1969, scientists were surprised to...

Robert Massey returns with a roundup of news from the Royal Astronomical Society. This month; The history of...

The Mid Infra Red Instrument, or MIRI, is due to fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, and will observe distant...

Comets plummeting into the Sun's atmosphere, why exercise can keep diabetes at bay, how the public are helping...

Solar storms can disrupt satellites, communications and power supplies and so scientists have now produced the first...

Smoking cessation, stars and planets, fungi fight lead pollution, and plants making a meal out of worms...

If you've seen a recent 3D film, you'll know that studying polarised light can be really helpful. The Cosmic...

Blue Stragglers are strange stars that don’t seem to fit the standard picture of stellar evolution. New research helps...

The opening a the largest ground telescope ever built, A probe planning a journey to the Sun and the revival of...

In this week's news roundup we discuss Chinese Space Stations, the Dead Sea Scrolls going online, using CO2 to...

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

Dr. Matt Mountain explains the design of the James Webb Telescope and how infra-red will be used to study the very...

How should astronomers go about communicating their work? Mark Thompson is President of Norwich Astronomical Society,...

Climatologists and geologists have developed a number of ways to estimate the temperature on Earth going back a very...

What would our solar system look like to extra-solar observers? Dr Chris Stark, from the Carnigie Institute in...