The second man on the Moon reveals how Apollo 12, not Apollo 11, could have been the first manned lunar landing
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Space Rocks: An interview with former Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley
All About Space caught up with the space-enthused musician, ahead of her unique sci-fi set at the brand new space and music event
Deep Space
Stephen Hawking: “I was playing poker with Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Commander Data on the Starship Enterprise!”
Back in 2014, we caught up with the great scientist to get his thoughts on the universe, his cameo in Star Trek: The Next Generation and why we could be living in a hologram
Ron Howard on Nat Geo’s Mars: “It reveals a tipping point, where Earth is looking to the Red Planet and led by Elon Musk”
The award-winning filmmaker takes us on a journey to the Red Planet in his new TV mini-series, airing this month on National Geographic
Astronomy
Go behind the scenes of Stargazing Live
We caught up with Keaton Stone, one of the producers of the popular stargazing show, to find out what happens when the cameras stop rolling
Space Exploration
Tim Peake: “Eating and sleeping in weightlessness is just going to be brilliant!”
All About Space caught up with the ESA astronaut before he made his way to the International Space Station
Space Exploration
SETI’s Seth Shostak: “We’ll find intelligent alien life within two dozen years”
The director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute tells us what would happen if a signal were to be found
Deep Space
LISA Pathfinder launch: “We’re looking for violent things!”
We caught up with Paul McNamara, lead scientist of LISA Pathfinder, before the mission’s launch
Solar System
Porco: “Maybe when we get to look closely at Enceladus, we’ll find lobster and sushi!”
We caught up with Carolyn Porco, imaging science team leader on the Cassini mission, to find out more about the global ocean on the Saturnian moon Enceladus
Deep Space
“The suitability for human life on a super-Earth is always a possibility,” says exoplanet hunter
We spoke to Professor Abel Méndez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, to learn more about the potential for life on super-Earths
Deep Space
“I consider it natural that alien moons have habitable environments,” says exomoon expert
Dr. René Heller chats to us about exomoons and the probability of them supporting life
Solar System
Levy: “It was something that we felt was causing the world to pause for a moment”
Shoemaker-Levy 9’s co-discoverer David Levy relives the comet’s crash with Jupiter twenty years on
Deep Space
Shostak: “I bet everyone a cup of coffee that we’ll find aliens within 25 years”
The SETI Institute’s Dr Seth Shostak tells us what will happen if we detect an alien signal
Space Exploration
Luca Parmitano: “I had water in my nose… no one could hear me”
Italy’s first spacewalker, Luca Parmitano, tells us how his second EVA on 16 July 2013 almost ended in disaster
Space Exploration
Barton: “The Moon is a continent-sized area begging to be explored”
We chat to Andrew Barton, Google Lunar XPRIZE’s director of technical operations, on man’s return to the Moon
Bickford: “The rings of Saturn have just the right geometry and composition to create antimatter”
Draper Laboratory’s Jim Bickford chats about his antimatter discovery and its uses for space travel
Space Exploration
The man behind the camera: An interview with NASA’s chief photographer, Bill Ingalls
Having been with NASA for over 25 years, Bill Ingalls tells us what it’s like to take photos for the world’s biggest space agency.
Space Exploration
Chris Hadfield: “The dinosaurs are extinct because they didn’t have a space programme”
We speak to the world-famous former astronaut about his life in space
FutureTech
Winning the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE
Astrobotic tells spaceanswers.com how it plans to make the first soft lunar landing since 1973
Space Exploration
Gravity: The science behind the movie
Kevin Grazier, the science advisor for Alfonso Cuarón’s new sci-fi thriller Gravity, talks about the concepts behind the movie and explains why they’re not that far removed from real life.