Sampling space rocks, the perils of re-directing asteroids, and life on the first...
Space Boffins
The award-winning space science, exploration and astronomy podcast from Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham...
15 January 2019
Mice and flying hotdogs on the podcast as Space Boffins report from NASA on how to save Apollo’s famous mission control...
12 December 2018
Space Boffins celebrate fifty years of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.
10 November 2018
The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino.
10 October 2018
Join Space Boffins for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility.
10 September 2018
Did spy satellites help prevent World War 3? You decide…
10 August 2018
It’s a rocket special on this month’s Space Boffins.
10 July 2018
Happy 7th Birthday to Space Boffins!
10 June 2018
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are at the National Space Centre in Leicester with BepiColombo mission...
10 May 2018
Sampling space rocks, the perils of re-directing asteroids, and life on the first International Space Station.
10 April 2018
After 2000 days on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is still going strong. Space Boffins explore water on Mars, life and...
10 March 2018
Could life on Earth be wiped out by a killer asteroid? The short answer is yes.
10 February 2018
Queen guitarist Brian May adds some celebrity stardust and the Space Boffins present from the British Interplanetary...
10 January 2018
What does microgravity feel like?
10 December 2017
Reflecting on 2017's space science, and a look to the future.
10 November 2017
The Space Boffins talk to Dallas Campbell on how to leave Earth, and take a trip to the Very Large Array telescope in...
10 October 2017
To celebrate World Space Week, Richard and Sue head off to the European Space Agency’s ESTEC Open Day
10 September 2017
This month, Space Boffins says goodbye to Cassini ahead of its grand finale...
10 August 2017
Celebrate 40 years of the Voyager mission with Space Boffins, plus there be genetically engineered space travellers in...
10 July 2017
Find out all about Europe's mission to Mercury!
10 June 2017
The Space Boffins return to our nearest planetary neighbour: Mars.
11 May 2017
Richard is at SETI in California to hunt space aliens with the institute’s chief astronomer, Seth Shostak. He also...
10 April 2017
Mission controllers, the man at the heart of Apollo 13 and a meeting with Dan Dare...
10 March 2017
SpaceX and NASA compete to get people back to the Moon, Richard meets a man who grows space tomatoes in human urine,...
10 February 2017
The Space Boffins are at Astrofest in London in front of a live audience. Guests include an Antarctic meteorite hunter...