🎧 New podcast episode 🎧 Our 2025 Christmas Lecturer, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, joins us on the podcast to explore the fascinating history of space imaging and her extensive experience in the scientific world. Listen here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ri-science-podcast/episodes/Tripping-the-light-fantastic-Space-science-and-200-years-of-the-CHRISTMAS-LECTURES---with-Dame-Dr-Maggie-Aderin-Pocock-e3bffsd/a-acb04ob | Royal Institution of Great Britain

We recently welcomed BBC Sky at Night on campus to find out about Leicester's involvement in NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter. Last week, Space Scientist and presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock returned to campus to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Science. Here, she explains why receiving the award from Leicester is incredibly special to her. | University of Leicester

Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and science communicator and presenter of The Sky at Night and the BBC's GCSE Science Live! lectures. She also presented the series Out of this World, on CBBC during lockdown with her daughter, Lauren, now 11. Maggie had her daughter when she was 42 and carried on doing science talks around the world, often with her little girl on stage with her, for the first 4 years of Lauren's life. I particularly marvelled at the Royal Institute lecture I found on Yo

30K views · 281 reactions | NASA has released never-before-seen footage captured by the Perseverance Rover as it touched down on Mars. Space scientist and educator, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock says "this is a time for glorious pictures of Mars". Read more: https://trib.al/nGFheYz | Sky News | Facebook