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Interviews about Space Science
Interviews about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
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23 August 2016
To assure a level of research quality, science is put to the test using the peer review process...
11 August 2016
Top tips to find your own hunk of space metal...
11 August 2016
Rosetta has managed to sniff the comet 67P and scientists have reconstructed what it smells like...
11 August 2016
Spot the difference: Meteor, meteorite, meteroid, comet, asteroid...
11 August 2016
Graihagh made it her mission to find out as much as possible about Connie's winnings. But first, how did Connie...
26 July 2016
Are Teflon and Velcro really products of NASA's missions to space?
18 July 2016
With its strong radiation belts, polar auroras and red spot, Jupiter is a bit of an enigma...
18 July 2016
Photographing the gas giants with astrophographer Roger Hutchinson...
18 July 2016
Juno rockets to Jupiter and deputy principle investigator of the mission explains how much of a feat this is...
23 June 2016
Could Tim Peake's mission be responsible for rocketing the next generation to the Moon?
23 June 2016
Are we racing to the Moon? Who are the contenders? And why the Moon over Mars?
23 June 2016
The Russian's metal ball was propelled into orbit in 1957 and everyone watched with awe and unease...
26 May 2016
Have you ever wondered what the Sun is made of?
26 May 2016
The Sun is 4.6 billion years old but how did it get there?
26 May 2016
How we're about to get closer to our Sun than ever before using ground up bones...
26 May 2016
When it comes to stellar death, it's go big or go home...
23 May 2016
Mars was once home to enormous tidal waves, new evidence suggests.
06 May 2016
Watching planets cross the sun was hugely important in understanding the scale of our universe but why do scientists...
22 April 2016
Exoplanets may yield clues as to whether there might be life somewhere out there. But they're so far away, so why...
22 April 2016
How we study planets beyond our own solar system...
22 April 2016
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun…but why are scientists so excited about it?
19 April 2016
The Japanese team have lost contact with the quarter of a billion dollar satellite but what happened?
29 March 2016
One day, satellites will help us explore the Moon and Mars...
29 March 2016
It's been over 50 years since this satellite launched and its long-since been decommisioned but what happens when...