On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's...
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24 December 2019
24 December 2019
On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's changed in astronomy over the...
25 January 2017
Elon Musk is aiming to have people on the Red Planet by 2024 so what will it be like for would-be Martians?
25 December 2016
Light is ubiquitous thanks to modern technology, and the night has never been more bright...
25 November 2016
If life is common in the universe, where is it? Graihagh Jackson tackles Fermi's paradox.
25 October 2016
Why is everyone excited about Gaia? What's so exciting about this probe? Graihagh Jackson investigates...
25 August 2016
... and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out about this hunk of space rock.
25 July 2016
Juno reaches Jupiter in a death-defying mission through radiation belts but what now?
25 June 2016
... and should we? Or should we be looking further afield to Mars?
25 May 2016
When you look up and see thousands of stars, do you ever wonder what you are looking at?
25 April 2016
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun...
25 March 2016
This month, we turn our instruments inwards and look back at planet Earth...
25 February 2016
Gravitational waves are beginning to unlock the secrets of the universe...
25 January 2016
When did time begin? Was it with the Big Bang or was there something before?
25 December 2013
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities.
25 November 2013
The Space Boffins report from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover...
25 October 2013
As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it...
25 September 2013
Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and...
25 August 2013
This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a mission to find out where the Milky Way's stars came from.
25 July 2013
In a special episode of Naked Astronomy I travel to the UK's biggest annual astronomy meeting to catch up on the...
25 June 2013
How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and how can space scientists use this to probe the Solar System...
25 May 2013
The processes that can trigger a galaxy to double in brightness
25 April 2013
The latest results from the Planck Space Telescope, and the amateur astronomer who observes shooting stars with a...
25 March 2013
Kirsten Gottschalk visits the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia
25 February 2013
2013 looks like a good year for comets! We find out where these balls of dust and ice come from and what to expect from...