Interviews about Space Science

Philae touched down on a comet back in 2014 but what has this revealed about the Kuiper Belt?

Should our time and money be going towards projects that are closer to home?

Australia recently launched its National Science Week, kicking things off with Perth Science Festival...

What is a 'Theory of Everything' and do we have a chance of finding one?

The Philae lander has detected complex, organic molecules on comet 67P, four of which have never been found on comets...

Clusters of pits observed on the surface of comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta probe hint at a hollow...

Scientists sporadically need to add or deduct seconds from our clocks but if our timekeeping is so accurate, why do...

Everyone is familiar with the concept of time but when did it begin? And how do we know when the beginning of time...

Dark matter makes up a quarter of our universe but we don't know what is it! Scientists could be about to change...

The biggest dark matter detector is now under construction. It will be so senstive to radiation, scientists can't...

Scientists have been looking for dark matter for nearly 100 years, but why does finding it matter?

NASA’s Messenger probe crashed into Mercury in April 2015. But what did Messenger discover during four years orbiting...

This month, the space telescope turns 25! We hear about its incredible achievements...

How do astronomers learn about the Big Bang? By studying fossilised photons in light left over from the origin of the...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has arrived at its destination, the dwarf planet Ceres, in the Asteroid Belt...

Spectroscopes have been used to discover what stars and planets are made of, as well as to find new elements here on...

We know now that the Earth goes around the Sun, not the other way around. But how was this intellectual leap made?

This month, Cambridge scientists are battling it out in an effort to become the city's FameLab champion! We hear...

Scientists have found the best evidence yet that the centre of our galaxy contains significant amounts of dark matter.

A new planetary system has been discovered and its enormous age makes ET's existence much more likely...

Scientists have been using X-rays to examine magnetism in meteorites dating from the dawn of the solar system...

12 years after it went missing on Mars, the Beagle 2 probe has been found unharmed...

Where did the ingredients for life come from? A new study suggests that deep-space sugars could hold the key...

A new planet has been discovered by the Kepler telescope, which is the most similar to earth yet, and could even host...