Media & press
Space stories, explained clearly — live or on the record
Experienced live TV and radio guest, based in Manchester and a short hop from MediaCityUK. Available for news comment, features, documentaries and podcasts.
I can talk about
Areas of expertise
- Exoplanets & habitable worlds
- The search for alien life & SETI
- UAP / UFO claims — the science
- Human spaceflight: Artemis, ISS, Tiangong
- Space telescopes: JWST, Euclid, Roman, Kepler
- Robotic missions: Mars, the Moon, the Sun
- Asteroids & planetary defence
- Night-sky events: meteor showers, supermoons
- Gravitational lensing & dark matter
- Jodrell Bank & the UK space sector
Formats
Working with media
Live studio (BBC Breakfast, BBC News), down-the-line and phone-in radio, print comment and long-form interviews and podcasts. Comfortable with fast-turnaround breaking news, and with making complex science accessible and fun.
Press office: University of Manchester media relations.
Ready to use
Biographies
Short (≈60 words)
Dr Eamonn Kerins is an astrophysicist at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. He studies exoplanets across the Milky Way using the gravitational lensing and transit methods, and is the ESA-appointed scientist to NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope exoplanet survey. He is a regular space commentator on BBC Breakfast.
Long (≈170 words)
Dr Eamonn Kerins is a Reader in Astronomy at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester. His research focuses on discovering and characterising exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars — and on mapping how planetary systems vary across our Galaxy. He is the ESA-appointed scientist to the exoplanet survey of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, where he also leads exoplanet demographics for the mission's transit science team. He previously led the Exoplanet Science Working Group for ESA's Euclid mission and its Galactic Bulge Survey. His team made the first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet from space using gravitational lensing, with NASA's Kepler telescope. Eamonn has appeared regularly on BBC Breakfast since 2022, and on BBC Radio 4, 5 Live, 6 Music, BBC World Service and BBC News, discussing everything from the James Webb Space Telescope to the Artemis II Moon mission.
Photos: Lovell Telescope portrait · BBC Breakfast. Please credit the University of Manchester unless otherwise stated.
Record
Media appearances
Selected broadcast, print and podcast work since 2011. Research-led stories are tagged.
- Sep 2026BBC Radio 6 Music Bobby FrictionFeatured live guest
- Sep 2026CBBC Channel NewsroundThe NASA Roman mission
- Sep 2026BBC Radio 5 Live Naga MunchettyNancy Grace Roman the scientist and the NASA mission
- Aug 2026BBC North WestPost launch interview about NASA Roman
- Aug 2026BBC Radio 4 Broadcasting HouseLive at the launch of NASA Roman
- Aug 2026BBC Radio 5 Live BreakfastLive at the launch of NASA Roman
- Aug 2026BBC North WestBuild up to the launch of NASA Roman
- Aug 2026BBC News ChannelBuild up to the launch of NASA Roman
- Jul 2026BBC Radio 5 LiveProposed UKRI funding cuts to e-MERLIN and Jodrell Bank
- Jun 2026The GuardianEuclid Galactic Bulge Survey — the widest high-resolution view of the Galaxy's centre
- Jun 2026Various outletsEuclid Galactic Bulge Survey coverage (video)
- Apr 2026BBC BreakfastArtemis II crew return from the Moon
- Apr 2026GB NewsArtemis II launch coverage
- Jan 2026BBC BreakfastNASA Artemis II crewed mission rollout
- Jan 2026BBC News ChannelLive coverage of the Artemis II rollout press conference
- Nov 2025BBC BreakfastShenzhou 22 rescue mission to the Tiangong space station
- Aug 2025BBC BreakfastPerseid meteor shower and the Sturgeon Moon
- Apr 2025BBC BreakfastApollo 13 — 55 years on
- Mar 2025BBC BreakfastThe UK space industry
- Dec 2024BBC Radio 5 LiveParker Solar Probe's closest pass of the Sun
- Aug 2024BBC Radio 5 LiveWater on Mars
- Jun 2024BBC Radio 5 LiveChang'e 6 lands on the Moon's far side
- Jun 2024BBC BreakfastBoeing Starliner crewed launch and Chang'e 6
- May 2024All FM (Manchester)Featured scientist — hour-long interview
- May 2024BBC BreakfastGliese 12b — a nearby, potentially habitable Earth-sized planet
- Dec 2023BBC BreakfastCygnus capsule and ISS waste
- Sep 2023BBC BreakfastNASA's independent study report on UAP
- Jun 2023BBC BreakfastFirst public meeting of NASA's UAP study team
- Apr 2023BBC World Service · CrowdScienceThe Drake Equation and life elsewhere
- Apr 2023BBC BreakfastCrew announced for NASA's Artemis II
- Jan 2023BBC BreakfastVirgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall
- Sep 2022Physics WorldEarth is well hidden from alien civilisations hunting for habitable planets
- Sep 2022BBC BreakfastNASA's DART asteroid impact
- Jul 2022BBC BreakfastThe first colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope
- Apr 2022The IndependentFirst exoplanet discovered from space by microlensing
- Apr 2022Daily MailJupiter twin spotted 17,000 light-years away
- Apr 2022Space.comKepler's space-based microlensing discovery
- Sep 2021CVLTURE.TVHour-long interview on exoplanets and alien life
- Jul 2021The IndependentEarth-mass free-floating planet candidates from Kepler
- Jul 2021Space.comPossible rogue planets detected by Kepler
- Jul 2021The RegisterKepler's free-floating planet candidates
- Jan 2021The Buzz PodcastHour-long interview
- Oct 2020National Geographic EspañaInterview on Mutual Detectability
- Oct 2020Physics WorldMutual detectability will improve the search for extraterrestrial civilisations
- Oct 2020AstronomyGame theory helps focus the hunt for alien civilisations
- Oct 2020DiscoverGame theory focuses the hunt for alien civilisations
- Oct 2020Phys.orgGame theory and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Oct 2020Daily ExpressCan game theory help us find aliens?
- May 2020AudibleExpert contributor, Exoplanets: The Search for Another Earth
- Oct 2019E&T (IET)Post-apocalyptic survival guide
- Jan 2018BBC World Service · BBC OSThe super blue blood Moon
- Jan 2018HuffPost UKWhat hope do exoplanets offer at the end of the world?
- Sep 2017The ConversationWhen the world is not enough: how to find another planet to live on (republished by Newsweek and HuffPost)
- Jun 2017Digital TrendsTim Peake's somersaults in space
- Aug 2016The GuardianProxima b — an Earth-like planet around our nearest star
- Nov 2014SyFy Wire · Bad AstronomyRosetta's Philae lander spotted on Comet 67P
- Jan 2014BBC Stargazing LiveLive Q&A expert (series 4)
- Jan 2013BBC Stargazing LiveResident live Q&A expert (series 3)
- Feb 2012BBC Radio 5 Live · Up All NightIs there life out there?
- Dec 2011BBC World Service · Science in ActionKepler-22b