Interviews about Space Science

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...

在戴夫已经建立了一个基本的望远镜a pair of magnifying lenses, we asked Dr Carolin Crawford for her...

Scientists have discovered methane on Mars, which comes and goes with the seasons. Could this be evidence of...

As part of a trip to the Naked Cafe on Solana Beach, we met Hans Paar to discuss the birth of the universe...

Planets come in many shapes and sizes, but how do they form? Chris met Micheal Meyer at the AAAS conference in Boston...

The ExoMars rover will be heading off to explore new territory, but will the future of Mars missions be manned or...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be fired into deep space, where it will cool to close to absolute zero in order to...

Dr Carol Haswell gives Meera Senthilingam a lesson in planet spotting, using techniques known as Winks, Wobbles and...

Astronomer Royal Professor Lord Martin Rees tells us about Earth, the Universe and Everything - from the Big Bang to...

Last week's show was all about Mars, just hours before the Phoenix mission was due to land. So did it touch down...

When the Phoenix lander arrives on Mars, what can it expect to see? And what processes shaped the face of Mars as we...

Meera goes to visit Martin Towner at the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at the Open University to...

We talk with William Boynton, in charge of Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyser aboard Phoenix, about the imminent landing...

We talk to a scientist who thinks he has found some parts of the asteroid, still in orbit, which killed the dinosaurs.

Here's a question: The universe is a big place and if you only have a small number of telescopes with which to...

Solar flares can have devastating effects here on Earth, but how do we study them, and what do they do to us?