European Space Agency

"We choose to make this podcast, not because it is easy, but because it is gas craic" Space is back in vogue! With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing during the summer, everyone has been turning their gazes back towards the sky. So…

Our solar system is home to at least 181 moons – that's probably 180 more than you thought, right? And unlike our own dull rock, some of these moons are breathtakingly beautiful, geologically active, and may potentially harbour life. There…

What’s a completely modern, contemporary, theme in history? Try to think of a suitable answer: Politics? No. The Greeks. Technology? Well, some say that papyrus was a technology. Gender? Joan of Arc and Elizabeth 1 set those contemporary…

Last Wednesday, November 11th I flew to the European Space Agency's Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, to attend their TEDxESA event, which was themed on Science Beyond Fiction, an investigation into the…

Ups and downs at the LHC Don't they look happy! It’s been an exciting few weeks over at CERN. After a scheduled 2 year downtime, the Large Hadron Collider was due to restart last week, but the momentous occasion was delayed by a short…

Origins In 1799 a French engineer stumbled upon what was to be one of the greatest archaeological finds in all of human history. On an expedition to Egypt with the purpose of undermining competitors' trade interests to the East, an…