Space

Avionics engineer with the European Space Agency, which built and tested the Rosetta space craft that landed a robot on a comet in November 2014. Audio

Matt Taylor is the project scientist on the Rosetta mission which in November, successfully landed a probe on a comet more than half a billion kilometres away. Brought up in east London, heavily… Audio

Jeffrey Kluger of Time's covering a NASA mission involving two twins, that will study the effects that a year in space has on the human body. Audio

Tech news with Peter Griffin; Uber the taxi app, peer-to-peer lending, and why Google has invested a billion dollars in space exploration. Audio

Scott Kelly is an astronaut who's making history with the help of his twin brother. In March, the American will embark on a mission to live on the International Space Station longer than any other… Audio

Is there life on Mars? It's a question asked time and time again. And NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover may be a step closer to answering the question. The rover has measured a tenfold spike in plumes of… Audio

The significance of small galaxies, the smallest one found (so far), and the challenges in studying them (assumedly due to their size). With A.Prof Evan Kirby from Caltech Department of Astronomy &amp… Audio

NASA's orbit of Earth in its Orion spacecraft has been labelled the most perfect flight you could imagine. The weekend's mission flew further and faster than any space capsule since the Apollo 17… Audio

Dr Chris Smith on a study about how DNA can survive space travel, and the scientists trying to crack the genetic secrets of the malarial mosquito. Audio

After a 64 billion kilometer journey a robotic space probe has landed on a comet for the first time in history. The Philae probe touched down on comet 67P last night to the jubilation of mission… Audio

The Rosetta space craft has been travelling for ten years to reach its rendezvous with comet 67P. Overnight, a small lander was released to land on the comet. We speak to Dr Matt Taylor - project… Audio

Professor James Bagian is a former astronaut and an expert in human fallibility and in particular how it relates to healthcare. He talks to Wallace about the more than 300 hours he spent in space, the… Audio

Dr. Ellen Stofan is the chief scientist at NASA. We speak to her about the prospects of life on Mars, and what it is about studying space that gets her most excited. Audio

What happens as more nations send an increasing number of objects into space to orbit the Earth? Dr James Clay Moltz is nothing less than director of the United States Naval Postgraduate School's… Audio

A team of citizen scientists and retired space buffs is trying to bring an abandoned spacecraft back to earth more than 30 years after it was launched. With Keith Cowing is from the ISEE-3 reboot… Audio

Anu Anand lives in India where the jackfruit's being heralded as the way to fight world hunger. Also the country's low budget space mission to Mars puts other efforts to shame. Audio

New Zealand's first multi-disciplinary space unconference brings together enthusiasts. Audio

Gazing up at the night sky is simultaneously humbling and utterly thrilling. We hear from TED speakers who share an infectious sense of wonder and curiosity about our place in the universe and what… Audio