In Print:

• 18/01/1996: Night of exploding stars - Independent

• 05/11/1999: Science: So where is everybody else living? - Independent

• 15/11/2006: Martin Rees forecasts the future - Independent

• 24/06/2010: Martin Rees makes a religion out of science so his bishops can gather their tithe - The Guardian

• 26/07/2010: No need for manned spaceflight, says astronomer royal Martin Rees - The Guardian

• 27/09/2010: Martin Rees: 'We shouldn't attach any weight to what Hawking says about god' - Independent

• 15/03/2011: The multiverse: our universe is suspiciously unlikely to exist – unless it is one of many - The Conversation

• 26/10/2012: Cambridge University's "Terminator studies" department – do we really need it? - The Guardian

• 16/12/2012: Are we alone in the universe? We'll know soon - The Guardian

• 06/08/2013: Ask the experts: will robots take over the world? - The Conversation

• 12/09/2013: To be effective citizens, we all need a feel for science - The Conversation

• 12/09/2013: Astronomer Royal on science, environment and the future - The Conversation

• 18/12/2013: For our future in space, China must aim further than the Moon - The Conversation

• 20/12/2023: Martin Rees: For our future in space, China must aim further than the Moon - Independent

• 03/09/2014: The geckos sent into orbit died, but don’t give up on life in space just yet - The Guardian

• 26/11/2014: Martin Rees: The world in 2050 and beyond - The New Statesman

• 02/06/2015: Clean energy should be our mission to the moon - Independent

• 20/07/2015: Let’s listen out for alien life - and remember we might not understand it - The Guardian

• 11/02/2016: The discovery of gravitational waves opens up a new window on the cosmos - Independent

• 15/06/2016: The proposed reforms to UK research are needlessly drastic. Here's why - The Guardian

• 29/08/2016: The Anthropocene epoch could inaugurate even more marvellous eras of evolution - The Guardian

• 03/04/2017: Aliens, very strange universes and Brexit – Martin Rees Q&A - The Conversation

• 10/01/2018: Lord Martin Rees: Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits - CRASSH

• 14/03/2018: I worked with Stephen Hawking. Here's what impressed me most about him - Salon

• 14/03/2018: I first met Stephen Hawking when we were students. His parties were legendary and he always insisted he wasn't another Einstein - Independent

• 14/03/2018: Stephen Hawking: Martin Rees looks back on colleague’s spectacular success against all odds - The Conversation

• 15/08/2018: Anthill 28: On nothing - The Conversation

• 15/08/2018: What is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A - The Conversation

• 22/08/2018: We may have to wait for post-humans to understand universe, says astrophysicist Martin Rees - Independent

• 18/10/2018: Cosmologist Martin Rees gives humanity a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century - Vox

• 05/12/2018: On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity - Quantamagazine 

• 20/07/2019: The moon was once a frontier. But new worlds now beckon - The Guardian

• 12/09/2019: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees to call for international tech guidelines - New Scientist

• 14/10/2019: Astronomer Royal: We're destroying the book of life before reading it - New Scientist

• 18/12/2019: Martin Rees: We will become a new species by expanding beyond Earth - New Scientist

• 22/12/2019: The science stories that shaped 2019 - The Guardian

• 29/12/2019: Be wary of Elon Musk despoiling the ‘vault of heaven’ - The Guardian

• 09/10/2020: Britain must nurture its scientific expertise to help save the world from climate crisis, Martin Rees - The Guardian

• 16/10/2020: From coronavirus to the climate: What it means to be a scientist today - Independent

• 24/02/2021: Will we ever find life beyond Earth? - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

• 16/06/2021: Martin Rees and Steven Pinker: Wagering on catastrophe - The New Statesman

• 16/08/2021: In Conversation with Lord Martin Rees: ‘The Future is in Our Hands, but the Stakes Have Never Been Higher’ - Earth.org

• 17/10/2021: Is searching for aliens worth the risk? Absolutely, says UK’s leading astronomer - BBC Science Focus

• 02/01/2022: Nasa’s Webb telescope is a joy. But it’s the private ventures that push at limits - The Guardian

• 09/03/2022: Time to take a long, hard look at humanity's future in the cosmos - New Scientist

• 09/03/2022: Martin Rees interview: Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans - New Scientist

• 13/04/2022: Letter: Martin Rees gives us some very wise words - New Scientist

• 30/04/2022: Could space-going billionaires be the vanguard of a cosmic revolution? - The Guardian

• 10/06/2022: 7 important astronomy achievements of the past 50 years - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

• 21/07/2022: The Webb Telescope Shows We Don’t Need Astronauts to Explore the Cosmos - The Wall Street Journal

• 31/08/2022: The dangers of science behind closed doors - IAI News

• 15/09/2022: SETI: Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological - Astronomy

• 18/09/2022: Lord Martin Rees: ‘Long term, humans won’t exist – they’ll evolve into something digital’ - The Telegraph

• 18/09/2022: Lord Martin Rees on minor falling out with King Charles III as he predicts humans to evolve into 'cyborgs' - Scottish Daily Express 

• 18/10/2022: Seti: why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological - The Conversation

• 24/10/2022: Lord Martin Rees: an appreciation - EA Forum 

• 27/10/2022: The Problem With the Nobel Prizes - Time

• 02/11/2022: UK universities are losing their edge in research - Research Professional News 

• 09/11/2022: ‘We should all be evangelists for new technology’ - Professor Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal - E&T

• 20/11/2022: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees: We're in a race between science education and catastrophe - Salon

• 23/11/2022: Artemis: why it may be the last mission for Nasa astronauts - The Conversation

• 17/12/2022: Space won’t offer an escape from Earth’s problems - The Spectator

• 19/12/2022: The Institutions of Science With Lord Martin Rees - Palladium 

• 22/12/2022: Martin Rees explains how science might save us - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 

• 19/01/2023: Light pollution rapidly reducing number of stars visible to naked eye, study finds - The Guardian

• 20/01/2023: The end of astronauts - IAI News 

• 04/03/2023: The Astronomer Royal's tribute to Patrick Moore - BBC Sky at Night Magazine

• 09/04/2023: The Multiverse: Our Universe Is Suspiciously Unlikely to Exist—Unless It Is One of Many - Singularity hub

• 13/04/2023: Is searching for aliens worth the risk? Absolutely, says UK’s leading astronomer - BBC Science Focus 

• 19/04/2023: In Conversation with Lord Martin Rees on Life Extension, Climate Change and Space - The Cambridge Student

• 17/05/2023: Group Statement: Protecting nuclear arms control is a global imperative - European Leadeship Network

• 02/06/2023: Can we live forever? New technologies promise the elixir of immortality – and the upheaval of society as we know it - The News Statesman

• 12/10/2023: Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes - The Guardian

• 26/10/2023: If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine - BBC

• 14/11/2023: Thomas Young: prolific polymath and unassuming genius - PhysicsWorld

• 24/04/2024: We Still Don’t Fully Understand Time - TIME

• 28/06/2024: The Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, gives his verdict on the long-term future of space exploration - Science Museum

• 14/11/2024: Contributions for Lord Rees of Ludlow: Universities - UK Parliament

In Video:

• 05/12/2016: Essence of Gravity - Martin Rees  - Serious Science 

• 24/02/2017: Prospects for Humanity - Serious Science 

• 20/04/2017: Churchill Club | An evening with Lord Martin Rees - Computer History Month

• 25/07/2017: Life in Space - Martin Rees/Serious Science - Serious Science

• 01/11/2018: Surviving the Century with Martin Rees - Harvard University Centre for the Environment 

• 05/12/2018: Martin Rees on the Future of Science and Humanity - Quanta Magazine 

• 21/02/2019: Can we all move to Mars? Prof Martin Rees on space exploration - The Guardian

• 01/05/2019: Martin Rees - Physics in Real and Counterfactual Universes - Simons Foundation 

• 09/09/2019: British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees talks to Spencer Kelly

• 17/09/2019: Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology - Chris Greenfield 

• 03/10/2019: Sir Martin Rees Public Lecture: Surviving the Century - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

•  28/10/2019: Prospects for Humanity - Long Now Foundation 

• 02/12/2019: Martin Rees - The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss - The Origins Podcast 

• 28/12/2019: Martin Rees - Long Term Thinking vs Short Term Thinking - The Origins Podcast 

• 08/05/2020: Martin Rees: Humanity's future – predictions for the next century - New Scientist 

• 18/06/2020: Prof. Martin Rees IUCAA Colloquium - Indian Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics 

• 21/06/2020: Climate Change and Coronavirus - Cambridge Union 

• 25/06/2020: Life's Future in the Cosmos - Long Now Foundation 

• 30/06/2020: Interview with Lord Martin Rees on Asteroid Day

• 01/08/2020: The World After Coronavirus: The Future of the Future - BU Pardee Center

• 01/08/2020: Martin Rees on COVID-19, Existential Risk, and Living in the Anthropocene - PoliticsBooksToday

• 31/08/2020: Prof. Martin Rees: "The World in 2050 - and Beyond" - Phi's Research and Innovation Summit

• 10/09/2020: Towards a Posthuman Future – with Martin Rees - The Royal Institution

• 16/09/2020: Foresight: Science for Navigating Critical Transitions - KACST

• 05/10/2020: The World in 2050 and Beyond - Webinar by Lord Martin Rees for IITACB - IIT Alumni Centre, Bengaluru

• 07/12/2020: CCCR 2020 Welcome and Keynote with Catherine Rhodes, Simon Beard and Martin Rees - CSER Cambridge 

• 09/12/2020: CCCR 2020 Martin Rees - Why Catastrophic Threats Should Worry Us More - CSER Cambridge 

• 10/12/2020: John Barrow Self Presentation and Commemoration by Martin Rees - Casina Pio IV

• 15/12/2020: Martin Rees - Did Our Universe Have a Beginning? - Closer to truth 

• 24/12/2020: Lord Martin Rees interview for Robinson College - Robinson College

• 29/12/2020: Martin Rees: On the Future of Humanity & Artificial Intelligence - United Sigma Intelligence Association (USIA)

• 01/01/2021: Lord Martin Rees on Catastrophe, Cosmology, and the Future - Physical Attraction podcast (ANPA Podcasts)

• 05/01/2021: Lord Martin Rees: On The Future — 2021 and BEYOND! - Dr Brian Keating 

• 12/01/2021: Professor Martin Rees: From Mars to the Multiverse - Cambridge University Cosmology

• 19/01/2021: On the Future (Existential Threats) | Bullaki Science Podcast with Martin Rees - Bullaki

• 28/01/2021: Thinking again about the future and prospects for humanity - Lord Martin Rees - Oxford Martin School 

• 31/01/2021: Artificial Intelligence | Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt & more - The Institute of Art and Ideas 

• 11/03/2021: The World in 2050 - and Beyond with  - STEM at the University of Kent 

• 29/03/2021: 2021 The Race to Space and Humanity's Future - World Governments Summit

• 29/03/2021: IIA50 Golden Jubilee Celebration - Special Lecture 1 - IIA Bengaluru 

• 22/04/2021: Biggest threat to humanity revealed (w/ professor Lord Martin Rees)  - Thom Hartmann Program

• 05/05/2021: Martin Rees: Progress and Frustration in Cosmology - Astrofisica 

• 06/05/2021: Why are so many countries unprepared for COVID-19  - Para Limes 

• 07/05/2021: S. M. Chitre Memorial Symposium. Session 5. Lord M. Rees  - CBS Science Club 

• 11/05/2021: Sir Martin Rees: The World in 2050 and beyond  - Einstein Forum 

• 24/05/2021: Martin Rees on the Future of Cosmology, Closer to truth live - Closer to truth 

• 26/05/2021: Martin Rees - Where do the laws of nature come from? - Closer to truth 

• 04/06/2021: Cambridge Society of Paris Lord Rees - Cambridge Society of Paris

• 09/06/2021: Martin Rees: The World in 2050 and beyond  - Učená společnost ČR

• 16/06/2021: Prof. Lord Martin John Rees: Real and counterfactual universes - PPGF/UFPA

• 29/06/2021: The Astronomer Royal on 'Ethical Science' - SYP interview with Lord Martin Rees - Student Young Pugwash UK  

• 01/07/2021: The world in 2050 and beyond - European Astronomical Society 

• 31/08/2021: A Cosmic Lens on Existential Risks: Lord Martin Rees - Cambridge Existential Risks Initiative 

• 08/09/2021: GNOSIS21: Interview with Lord Martin Rees - GNOSIS 

• 04/10/2021: 1.4.6 Martin Rees: Astronomer Royale - Are we alone?

• 04/10/2021: Martin Rees - Are we alone?

• 09/10/2021: An Online Conversation with Lord Martin Rees - EarthOrg 

• 13/10/2021: Munk Debate on Space Settlement: Milan M. Ćirković vs. Lord Martin Rees - TheMunkDebate 

• 29/10/2021: Martin Rees - Which Laws of Nature are Fundamental? - Closer to Truth

• 15/01/2022: Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees: the World in 2050 and Beyond - Bath Royal Literary and scientific institute 

• 15/01/2022: Debating the next environmental crisis - The Institute of Art and Ideas 

• 18/02/2022: Potential Utopian and Dystopian Futures - CARTA at UCSD 

• 25/03/2022: Maritn Rees - Do General Principles Govern - Closer to Truth 

• 08/04/2022: Connecting risks with Lord Martin Rees - Thinking the Unthinkable 

• 08/04/2022: Talking about...connecting risks with Lord Martin Rees - Thinking the Unthinkable 

• 09/04/2022: Martin Rees: The world in 2050 on Earth and in space - Cambridge Festival 

• 18/04/2022: Martin Rees on unknown risks - Global challenged forum

• 13/05/2022: CARTA: Potential Utopian and Dystopian Futures with Martin Rees - University of California

•  17/05/2022: Space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life with humans and with robots - Royal Astronomical Society 

• 23/07/2022: Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Martin Rees on Demis Hassabis - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Can humans understand reality - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: What will destroy human civilisation - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Will AI win a nobel prize? - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Dark matter is still a mystery - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Black Holes Explained - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Are we alone in the universe - Lex Clips

• 23/07/2022: Martin Rees:Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the big bang theory - Lex Fridman

• 24/07/2022: Are there an infinite number of universes - Lex Clips

• 24/07/2022: What happened before the big bang - Lex Clips

• 24/07/2022: What would Isaac Newton think about modern physics - Lex Clips

• 24/07/2022: Why it's wrong to replace human care with robots: Lord Martin Rees & Dr John Wyatt- Premier Unbelievable 

• 25/07/2022: Alien life would be the biggest discovery in the universe - Lex Clips

• 25/07/2022: When galaxies collide: Will humans survive it? - Lex Clips

• 25/07/2022: Can a big telescope find alien life? - Lex Clips

• 25/07/2022: Lex Fridman and Lord Martin Rees get interrupted by Charles Powell - Charles Powell

• 25/07/2022: Lord Martin Rees and Dr John Wyatt on the future of transhumanism - Premier Unbelievable

• 25/07/2022: Is HAL 9000 evil - Lex Clips

• 25/07/2022: Advice for young people: work on new ideas - Lex Clips

• 26/07/2022: Martin Rees & John Wyatt: Robots, AI, Transhumanism & Life Beyond Earth (+Nigel Crook & David Levy) - Premier Unbelievable

• 26/07/2022: Would Aliens recognise humans as intellegent - Lex Clips

• 27/07/2022: Lord Martin Rees on the future of evolution - Premier Unbelievable

• 28/07/2022: Theory of everything is very misleading - Lex Clips

• 28/07/2022: What aliens looks like, Martin Rees and Lex Fridman - Lex Clips

• 28/07/2022: Theory of everything is very misleading - Lex Clips

• 28/07/2022: Mars colony will be mostly robots - Lex Clips

• 13/08/2022: What do the stars hold for the future? | Martin Rees - The Institute of Art and Ideas

• 28/08/2022: The Future of Humanity, Martin Rees - Reason with Science 

• 08/09/2022: Martin Rees : On the Future Prospects for Humanity - Berkely SETI

• 16/09/2022: 02b PAS Academician Lord Martin Rees (Chair - Session I) - Casina Pio IV 

• 29/09/2022: If Science is to Save us - RSA 

• 27/10/2022: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe - Academy of Achievement

• 08/11/2022: Lord Martin Rees: Can science save us? - Dr Brian Keating  

• 03/01/2023: Can science save us? (Martin Rees) - Skeptic - The Michael Sharmer Show

• 01/02/2023: In conversation with Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal - Cambridge Gravity  

• 01/02/2023: TRAILER: Gravity Encounters. In conversation with Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal - Cambridge Gravity 

• 11/03/2023: Will Alien's be AI - Astrobiscuit 

• 23/03/2023: Govind Swarup Memorial Lecture - 2023 - NCRA Outreach

• 21/03/2023: The Era of Global Risk panel - CSER Cambridge

• 17/08/2023: AI & ET Civilizations - Tim Ventura 

• 09/09/2023: Life Story of Legendary Astronomer/Cosmologist, Martin Rees - The Human Podcast  

• 02/11/2023: The Past and Future of Life and the Cosmos - World Science Festival

• 26/11/2023: From science fiction to science fact - Cambridge Festival  

• 26/03/2023: The Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees of Ludlow: Lord Speaker’s Corner | House of Lords | Episode 16 - House of Lords  

• 25/04/2023: Sam Harris Is Wrong About Morality | Can Morality Be Objective without God? - The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins                  

  
  In Podcast:

• 12/10/2009: Lord Martin Rees, What does the future hold? - The Darwin 2009 Festival 

• 01/06/2010: The Reith Lectures: The Scientific Citizen - BBC Sounds

• 08/06/2010: The Reith Lectures: Surviving the Century - BBC Sounds 

• 22/06/2010: The Reith Lectures: The Runaway World  - BBC Sounds 

• 15/07/2010: The Reith Lectures: What We'll Never Know - BBC Sounds

• 06/04/2012: How Much Cosmology Can We Believe? with Martin Rees - UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures

• 21/11/2013: Cosmic Origami and What We Don't Know - On Being with Krisat Tippett 

• 15/12/2014: Professor Carl Djerassi 'in conversation' with Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Former Head of the Royal Society - Centre for Gender Studies 

• 18/02/2015: Martin Rees on surviving this century, scientists in politics, and 2015 - University of Cambridge 

• 31/05/2017: Martin Rees - Curtains for us all? - Edge Cast 

• 15/08/2017: From Here to Infinity - Little Atoms 

• 24/10/2017: Lord Martin Rees, How Gold is Made and the Lightyear Foundation - Love and Science 

• 26/11/2017: CISD Seminar Series: Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal - SOAS Radio

• 31/01/2018: Martin Rees on saving the planet - FT Tech Tonic 

• 10/09/2018: The Future with Martin Rees - Encounter 

• 28/09/2018: On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, with Martin Rees - Carnegie Council Podcasts 

• 11/10/2018: #277 Lord Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal - The Not Old - Better Show 

• 16/11/2018: The Future of Us, with Sir Martin Rees - StarTalk Radio 

• 21/11/2018: There is no Plan B for planet Earth - Instant Genius

• 07/12/2018: UK Astronomer Royal - Sir Martin Rees - HARDtalk 

• 10/12/2018: Episode 237 - Martin Rees - Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

• 25/12/2018: Sir Martin Rees — On the Future: Prospects for Humanity - The Michael Shermer Show

• 22/01/2019: Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity - Long-Term Thinking