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Interviews about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
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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...
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...
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...
脉冲星猎人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...