We catch up with Imperial mission scientist Chris Carr as the Rosetta spacecraft ends its 10-year mission by crashing into the surface of comet 67P.

Rosetta's last mission - extended interview

On 7 January 2014, the Sun's surface erupted with an unusually large explosion, called coronal mass ejection (CME), with NOAA releasing a significant false alarm geomagnetic storm at Earth. Credit: Dr Neel Savani / Imperial College London

Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 7 January 2014

Dr Richard Ghail and Dr Philippa Mason make the case for further exploration of Venus and outline their plans for a new mission. (Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 3 December 2014)

Earth’s unloved neighbour 

Roberto Trotta

Could you explain the long and complicated story of our universe using only the most common thousand words in the English language? In his first book 'The Edge of the Sky Dr Roberto Trotta does exactly that.

Dr Roberto Trotta explains ‘All you need to know about All-There-Is’

Colin Smith speaks to Professor Tom Pike about an upcoming 2016 mission to Mars and his involvement in building seismometers to detect ‘Marsquakes’ and understand the seismic activity of the red planet. (Imperial Podcast 1 October 2014 2/4)

Measuring quakes on Mars

Gail Wilson chats to researchers about moon craters, meteorites from Morocco, and how space satellites could help improve UK rail networks. (Imperial Podcast 1 October 2014 3/4)

Update from Imperial SpaceLab 2014

Using the oldest light to build the newest theories about the universe. The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Andrew Jaffe

The random universe

Join curator of meteorites at the Natural History Museum, Dr Caroline Smith and Imperial College Astrobiologist Dr Zita Martins to find out how meteorites can help to answer fundamental questions.

Meteorites: A journey through space and time

Dark energy and dark matter pervade the Universe. Professor Alan Heavens discusses how we find their properties and test whether Einstein's gravity theory works.

Dark Energy : Dark Matter : Dark Gravity

Chris Carr discusses his involvement in the European Space Agency Rosetta mission, and tells us why it is so important to study comets. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 5 February 2014)

Awaking Rosetta 

Space

Audio quality is very poor, and video is generally a simple data loop. I was really hoping for more.

Disappointed

Dr Tom Pike explains why his data cast doubt on the possibility of life having existed on the Martian surface, but Professor Mark Sephton hasn't given up the search.

Is there life on Mars?

Dr Joanna Morgan from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering talks about the day the dinosaurs became extinct.

The day the dinosaurs were wiped out

Imperial physicists Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien show off their prototype kit for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission and explain why it won't be possible to send a manned mission to the sun just yet

Space mission scientists share their cosmic vision - Solar Orbiter

Interview with Randall Perry on rocks on Mars and what they could tell us about life on Earth.

Extract 3 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast March 2007: Rocks on Mars and Life on Earth

Bringing comet dust from NASA's Stardust mission to Imperial's labs.

Extract 4 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast April 2007: Bringing Comet Dust to Imperial

Professor Michele Dougherty on the Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons.

Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast December 2008: The Cassini Mission to Saturn

Figure

Dr Dave Clements, from the Department of Physics at Imperial, explains what this new image from the Planck mission shows

New image from Planck mission - figure 2

New image from Planck mission - figure 1

Dr Gareth Collins from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering talks about an ancient asteroid impact

Asteroid impact

New image from Planck mission - figure 3

Professor David Clements gives us the cosmic low-down on the first results from the Planck satellite, including the discovery of the largest galaxy clusters ever found in the universe

Extract 2 of 5 from the Imperial College Podcast 18 January 2011 

Phil Bland on what his special delivery tells us about the Solar System's early days.

Extract 3 of 3 from the Imperial College Podcast May 2007: The Early Solar System

Imperial physics professors Tejinder Virdee and Geoff Hall talk about the aims of the CMS experiment, their first set of results and their future hopes for the research.

CMS - the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN

Students who are studying Industrial Design Engineering create plans for new space hotel

Imperial Students design space hotel

Astrophysics group launch new series called 'The Big Questions' starting off with the Big Bang

New debating series launched exploring big questions about our universe 

Students design pilotless plane to replace satellites

Solar powered plane

Dr Simon Foster on how he and other Imperial researchers are plotting to send astronauts to Mars. (Extract 4 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 19 June 2013)

Mission to Mars 

Phil Bland explains how cameras in the Australian outback are catching falling stars (with a little help from local farmers)

Extract 2 of 6 from the Imperial College Podcast 21 December 2010 

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