Interviews about Space Science

What's Perseverance up to?

We chat with our two special guests, John Zarnecki and Bahijja Raimi-Abraham

What's the latest on NASA's Perseverance rover?

The United Arab Emirates' first space mission has just arrived in orbit around the red planet...

2021 is set to be a jam-packed year for space science...

The biggest telescope ever made, and what we plan to use it for

The Space Boffins spoke to Mike back in January 2020

How did Hayabusa recover a piece of an asteroid, and what will it teach us?

Near earth objects that get a bit close for comfort, and what we can do about them

Metalysis plan to convert dust on the moon into its constituent parts, metals and oxygen. How would it work?

How fast are we going

Astronomers have discovered water on the sunlit side of the moon...

Could a newly spotted object in space actually be a fragment of our past?

Meet the winning discoveries: Hepatitis C, the gene editing technique CRISPR, and a supermassive black hole...

Scientists have detected a gas in Venus' atmosphere that they can't explain...

Space scientist Katie Mack and space journalist Richard Hollingham talk space science with Chris Smith...

The square kilometre array is set to be the biggest telescope, but how does it work?

We look at the telescope that's hoping to fill Hubble's sizable boots.

Some telescopes don't use light, they use gravity...

How did telescopes come into focus

A key Mars mission - that we featured on the programme a few weeks ago - has gotten underway...

Where on Earth can you get the best view of the heavens?

What is spaghettification? How do you define the kilogram? Adam provides the trivia treats...

Why are we sending a Mars rock back to Mars?