Interviews about Space Science

Earlier in the year, some hoped that a comet as bright as the Moon might be visible this autumn, but now many are more...

Robert Massey gives us a round-up of this month's astronomy news

By dating stars and looking at how they're moving, astronomers are trying to work out where the stars of the Milky...

By dating stars and looking at how they're moving, astronomers are trying to work out where the stars of the Milky...

Astronomers are starting to glean some first clues as to what the atmospheres of planets circling around other stars...

Astronomers are starting to glean some first clues as to what the atmospheres of planets circling around other stars...

Flashes of gamma-ray radiation in the sky have puzzled astronomers for decades, but some may be caused by collisions...

Flashes of gamma-ray radiation in the sky have puzzled astronomers for decades, but some may be caused by collisions...

The Gaia spacecraft, scheduled for launch by the European Space Agency this autumn, will make the most detailed map of...

The Gaia spacecraft, scheduled for launch by the European Space Agency this autumn, will make the most detailed map of...

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

How do we know dark matter exists and how do we detect it?

Can the need for dark matter in cosmology be escaped by modifying the laws of gravity?

What do we know about dark matter and dark energy? Catherine Heymans gives me an update.

Until now, it was thought red dwarf stars could host habitable planets. But are their solar winds too strong?

What can we learn from huge surveys of the sky?

With his own telescope Tom Boles has personally discovered more supernova than any other human in history. I asked him...

With his own telescope Tom Boles has personally discovered more supernovae than any other human in history. But how has...

The surfaces of asteroids may be so unstable, that any attempt to land on one might cause long-distance avalanches of...

Future robotic rovers on the Moon could find that moon dust sticks to them electrostatically, meaning they will be...

Jack O'Malley James tells me that life is likely to live deep underground in two billion years' time.

What will be the last life left on earth? Bacteria, or cockroaches?

It is not just professional astronomers who observe the Sun, as Lee Macdonald tells me.

A new survey is monitoring how solar storms trigger unusual electric fields on Earth, to help understand how to protect...