Interview with Professor Wu Ji, founding director of China’s National Space Science Centre

Weather and limited launch windows have made the first mission to the lunar south pole to forego its flight opportunities until September.

Located just on the outskirts of Florence, amongst the rolling Tuscan hills, is the Arcetri Observatory. It was the home of the first Solar Telescope in Italy. It is still there, although no longer in...

They could have just asked a space lawyer!

In the story of WordPress –the tool that powers 45% of the web– Mike Little is Steve Wozniak to Matt Mullenweg's Steve Jobs. But unlike Woz, Mike never had shares in Matt's $7bn business – or even a j...

Apollo 8’s 1968 mission has been compared to that of Artemis 2. Even though Artemis 2 did not orbit the Moon, whereas Apollo 8 observed the lunar surface during 10 lunar orbits, […]

One of the instruments on Huygens, which made the 1.5 billion km trek to the surface of Titan, was designed by Dr John Geake from the University of Manchester.

For the first time since 1999, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Europe. Although the precise times of the start and the eclipse are known with remarkable precision, […]

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is proud to announce the COSPAR 2025 Scientific Symposium in cooperation with the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO). This Symposium, themed "Space E...

Rob and Adrian, from the Graphene Engineering and Innovations Centre on Sackville Street, will explain what graphene is, its latest applications, and how it will enable the ultimate civil engineering ...

Shenzhou-21 took just 3.5 hours from Launch to docking with Tiongong Space Station. How do these "fast track" trajectories work?

I first came across the Antikythera Mechanism just over a decade ago. It is still the most incredible artefact from history. It is as out of place in our time as William Shakespeare using an Iphone or...

You may have seen the BBC documentary Britain's Greatest Pilot. Yes, he was an outstanding pilot, but there was much more to him than just that. I published extracts from an interview with Captain Eri...

What is the Breakthrough Initiative? Who leads it? How is it funded and what are the big questions for humanity it is hoping to address?

One of the unintended consequences of the U.S. President Donald Trump virtually dumping India out of favor on the ostensible grounds of divergence in trade issues and the Modi government buying Russia...

YouTube video by Narendra Modi

A few notes from the two-day UKspace conference that started today and ends tomorrow. Located in the heart of Manchester – Manchester Central. Space in UK UK has around 1900 […]

This page lists all the programs broadcast on Allfm.org in my series under the title Manchester Science. This series explores the science being conducted in and around Manchester right now. […]

Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, founding developers of WordPress, discuss the history of WordPress, the open source philosophy behind it, and their backgrounds in this interview recorded at WordCam…

This page lists all the programs broadcast on Allfm.org in my series under the title Manchester Science. This series explores the science being conducted in and around Manchester right now. […]

A two-day Breakthrough Discuss conference held on 23rd and 24th April 2025 in Oxford England, took stock of the latest developments through three main sessions: "Forms of Non-Terrestrial Life", "The N...

The story of Teide-1 (the first brown dwarf to be observed) is the story at the other end of a star's life cycle. That early stage is when stars transition from a huge cloud of dust and gas (billions ...

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.