Asking for a friend Is your friend Elon Musk, by any chance?

A quite interesting programme on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week yesterday - talking about exoplanets and space exploration. I didn't hear all of it but ...

I prefer the Albus Dumbledore 'deluminator' approach.

A short while later the local council installed a switch on the street light allowing him to view the universe unimpeded. The council did ask him to m...

What sort of age would you say it is, Mike?

Interesting weather app. What's it called? I guess the wind must be the issue, souls33k3r. It's pretty exposed out on the 'heath. I know it always p...

Souls33k3r, there was an email sent yesterday that said: "However at the moment, although generally clear, wind gusts are forecast thanks to the impen...

They must be using one of those cool telescopes from the John Lewis ads, then ;)

So basically, what you're saying is, it's not very easy to see. On the basis of the xkcd cartoon below, unless I've slipped a zero this new object ha...

So I'm wondering, what's the angular diameter of an object the size of 'Land's End to John O'Groats' when it's 15.5 billion kilometres/103AU away - an...

Upcoming programme next Monday night (16th November, 9pm Beeb4): How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank. Thanks...

It's taken less than 36 hours for this brilliant parody to come out. Tej, you'll love it!

I make no apologies for the schmaltz and I'll even forgive the 'science' (though I am a little concerned about raising expectations with regard to wha...

Am trying to find the original source for that map. Meanwhile, try this.....