Interviews about Space Science

Desert Fireball need your help to find meteorites and track their origins back to outer space.

What have we found out so far from the Rosetta-Philae mission? And what does a comet smell like?

What's the difference between a meteorite, an asteroid and a comet?

Naked Scientist Connie Orbach won a meteorite and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out more...

Terraforming is a controversial concept but could make Mars more like Earth.

...and it's pretty cosy.

Mars is hostile, there's no getting around that so how will humans survive?

Living without gravity can have some serious side effects, as astronaut Stanley G Love found out...

Elon Musk's target of 2024 seems ambitious, so how realistic is this goal?

A look back at Gene Cernan's achievements and hopes for space exploration.

When the discovery of gravitational waves hit the headlines.

How one community has decided to turn the lights down low in the search for darkness...

Does it matter that the light bulb is destroying the night?

What if we found life beyond the Earth?

...and could it explain why we haven't found any evidence of life beyond Earth?

If you fill out Drake's equation, life beyond Earth is highly probable...

...but it's not all easy. Space is a dangerous and inhospitable place but if successful, we can look for microbial...

To prove life once existed on Mars, we may need to send humans. But what's life like in microgravity?

It may be light years away but scientists have developed a nifty way to see if planets around other stars could have...

Why do we enjoy conspiracy theories and where did they come from?

The science of how things spin and bounce...

Could we search for DNA in space?

How do you navigate an empty craft through millions of miles of space?

How ancient mariners managed to get around, with help from coconuts!