Tragic news about Michael Mosley. He was such an important figure both on and off screen in the BBC science unit, and as a mentor to many of us when we started out in science presenting. And, as many of our colleagues have already said on here, he was a genuinely lovely man. So…

I just got asked if I was Tim Burgess. I don’t know what to make of it.

RIP Bill Anders - Jim Lovell once said to me that Apollo 8 was the highlight of his career because it was the first navigation of the ocean between Earth and Moon. I still find the Christmas Eve 1968 broadcast tremendously moving www.nasa.gov/mission…

Very sad to learn that Greg Quicke ‘Space Gandalf’ has died. If you’re in the U.K. you’ll remember him from Stargazing Live. I love what he wrote on seeing the solar eclipse in 2023. "My body spent, my heart full, I crash into a deep eclipse fuelled communion with the other…

There are many appropriate responses to the existential challenge posed by the size, scale and strangeness of the Cosmos. I was proud to be asked to endorse this one :-) youtu.be/RkOFRQmA1QA…