1.   British astronomer Patrick Moore, backs the cause.

2.   Frenk is to report the simulation findings on Friday at a conference of British astronomers in Liverpool.

3.   More recent advocates of panspermia include the British astronomer Fred Hoyle and the British biologist Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

4.   The Milky Way galaxy in which we live is not really flat, as people have thought, but roughly spherical, according to new research by British astronomers.

5.   British astronomers have discovered sporadic small explosions on the surface of the sun that they say may help explain some of its mysteries.

6.   The VOXEL technology was developed by Stephen Hart, a British astronomer who wanted to figure out the shape of a particularly obscure nebula.

7.   A British astronomer has turned scientific orthodoxy on its head by suggesting space travellers could one day move faster than the speed of light.