Interviews about Space Science

Today many countries are competing to return to the Moon, including China, Japan and India. But what are they all...

One of the greatest legacies of Apollo 11 is the 383 kilos of moon rock that the astronauts lugged back to Earth. What...

This week, 3000 metres up a Chilean mountain, scientists pressed the button to blow up half a million tonnes of rock...

One of the biggest dangers of long distance space travel are flares of radiation bursting from the sun. Have scientists...

This new prize offers £10 million to individuals who can solve 6 pressing modern day problems.

This week astronomers announced that the Gemini Planet Imager is enabling them to actually "see" exoplanets

An ocean deeper than the Marianas trench has been discovered on Saturn's moon Enceladus

This week a team of astronomers announced that they had detected evidence of primordial gravitational waves. We met one...

UK Science Minister, David Willetts addresses the AAAS Meeting in Chicago, 2014

To find out why the UK is investing in monitoring the Sun's activity

The UK’s weather-forecasting service have announced that it will monitor the Sun’s activity. But what are researchers...

How can we form long-term predictions of how the Sun is going to behave in years to come?

Storms on the Sun’s surface can affect spacecraft and power distribution grids. But can they also change the weather on...

The Gaia spacecraft will soon begin mapping out the 3D positions of the Milky Way's stars

Looking for planets around the stars of the night sky

What sort of creatures might be able to survive in space? Alan Tunnacliffe explains it might be those who can live...

A group of asteroids following Mars's orbit may be fragments from the collision of much larger asteroids.

When black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves. But no such waves have yet been detected, ruling out some ideas...

Comet ISON will pass within two Sun radii of the Sun's surface in November. But astronomers remain unsure how...

Australian radio astronomers are asking volunteers at home to donate computer power to help process their data.

In recent years, its become clear that the Moon has much more water beneath its surface than previously thought. Where...

As our closest celestial neighbour, the Moon is an ideal place for testing new technologies in space.

Robert Massey from the Royal Astronomical Society gave me a round-up of the latest astronomy news.

We speak to the team behind one of the oldest citizen science projects - Galaxy Zoo