c h r i s t o p h e r r i l e y
a selection of articles & news pieces
BBC News “A view from the cosmic shoulder” – 06-09-06
Astronomers have discovered over 200 new worlds orbiting our closest 5,000 stars; all this despite modern telescopes lacking the power to see planets beyond our Solar System.
BBC News “We Choose to go to the Planets” – 10/11/04
The BBC's new science series Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets is part drama - the gripping story of five astronaut-explorers on the ultimate expedition to the planets.
BBC News “Pushing frontiers in TV Space” – 08/11/04
What would it be like to take a six-year trip around our Solar System? A major new science series from the BBC imagines just such a journey.
BBC News “Shaken back to health” – 15/05/02
The Italian cosmonaut who flew with space tourist Mark Shuttleworth last month is completing an experiment that could have major implications for the way we treat osteoporosis sufferers.
BBC News "UK's first impact crater discovered"
- 01/08/02
Oil geologists have stumbled across an ancient impact crater under the North Sea, 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of England's Yorkshire coast.
(most read article on BBC News - August 2002)
BBC News
"Robot insect takes to the air” –
11/04/01
Engineers have test flown a prototype of the world's first robotic insect. It is hoped that future generations of this curious craft could carry tiny spy cameras into buildings.
BBC News
"Glowing plants reveal touch sensitivity” – 17-05-
00
US scientists have engineered a plant which glows when touched, creating a unique window into how plants sense being handled.
BBC News
"In the Leonids Lair” 18/11/99
By BBC Science's Dr Chris Riley on board Nasa's Leonid mission jet from Tel Aviv, Israel, to the Azores.
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"Voyage through a comet’s trail”
– 17/11/99
Early on the morning of Thursday 18 November, in its annual encounter with the dusty trail of comet Tempel Tuttle, the Earth will collide with a trillion fragments of ice - sending shooting stars hurtling through the night sky.
BBC News “When worlds collide” – 05/05/99
Early on the morning of Thursday 18 November, in its annual encounter with the dusty trail of comet Tempel Tuttle, the Earth will collide with a trillion fragments of ice - sending shooting stars hurtling through the night sky.
BBC News
"Return to mission Leonid” –
04/12/98
Chris has written this account of the mission which sent two aircraft chasing the storm over Asia on the night of 17/18 November
BBC News
"An invitation to the firework
party” – 17-11-98
Chris Riley is travelling with 40 scientists and engineers as they fly two planes directly under the Leonid meteor storm on the night of Tuesday, 17 November.