Naked Astronomy

Elon Musk is aiming to have people on the Red Planet by 2024 so what will it be like for would-be Martians?

Light is ubiquitous thanks to modern technology, and the night has never been more bright...

If life is common in the universe, where is it? Graihagh Jackson tackles Fermi's paradox.

Why is everyone excited about Gaia? What's so exciting about this probe? Graihagh Jackson investigates...

... and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out about this hunk of space rock.

Juno reaches Jupiter in a death-defying mission through radiation belts but what now?

... and should we? Or should we be looking further afield to Mars?

When you look up and see thousands of stars, do you ever wonder what you are looking at?

On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun...

This month, we turn our instruments inwards and look back at planet Earth...

Gravitational waves are beginning to unlock the secrets of the universe...

When did time begin? Was it with the Big Bang or was there something before?

Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities.

The Space Boffins report from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover...

As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it...

Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and...

This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a mission to find out where the Milky Way's stars came from.

In a special episode of Naked Astronomy I travel to the UK's biggest annual astronomy meeting to catch up on the...

How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and how can space scientists use this to probe the Solar System...

The processes that can trigger a galaxy to double in brightness

The latest results from the Planck Space Telescope, and the amateur astronomer who observes shooting stars with a...

Kirsten Gottschalk visits the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia

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...

How can we solve the space debris problem? What will we learn from LOFAR? This month, we meet TechDemoSat and catch up...