Interviews about Space Science

What did the moon landings teach us about why humans go to space?

Should we travel to Mars to establish another base for humanity and give ourselves more chances for survival?

Is science a good enough reason to send humans to Mars? Or are robots safer and cheaper?

How would society function on a small, dangerous planet over 30 million miles away from Earth?

How would Martian settlers diagnose illnesses without the luxury of hospital equipment?

What would day-to-day life actually be like in a Mars settlement?

What would the surface of Mars be like to live on?

There's the radiation, the microgravity and even sound waves to think about when sending humans to the Red Planet.

Cosmic radiation can be deadly, especially if a solar storm hits. How can we protect astronauts once they leave the...

Without gravity, things get interesting (especially when it comes to showering!) as NASA astronaut Stanley G. Love...

Stanley G. Love spent two weeks in space and lost 8lbs of muscle. To go to Mars, we would need to spend nine months in...

With so many people applying, how does NASA choose its astronauts?

How fit do you have to be to go to space and how do we test for it in advance?

What sort of person would you like to have as a companion in isolation?

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, reveals all about her journey into orbit alongside a team of Russian...

It takes more than just the individual to get an astronaut into space, who are the unsung heroes of space travel?

The University of Oxford have announced their role in the European Extremely Large Telescope, and it's going to...

Scientists are preparing to launch a helium balloon with a telescope attached to detect Dark Matter.

Pupils will soon be sending mini-computers up onto the borders of space to collect data for their own analysis...

Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, but how did this happen?

New Horizons' images of Pluto have reignited debate over the dwarf planet's classification: should Pluto be...

The New Horizons probe has provided vast quantities of data on Pluto, but what has it told us that we didn't...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, an area of space which is proving very tricky to study...

Finding meteors isn't too tricky, but working out where they came from is a different kettle of fish altogether...