Space Boffins

Icy moons, magnetic fields, and life elsewhere in the solar system are under our microscope this month...

What’s the toilet like in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft?

A Hubble astronaut and the UK's "Space Minister" grace the podcast this month...

Nasa’s outgoing head of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, discusses the James Webb Space Telescope, future missions to the...

Scientists reminisce about Sprit and Opportunity...

For the first time in full, our interview with the last man on the Moon, Gene Cernan...

Stuart Roosa, Moon Trees and the UAE mission to Mars...

How do you design a space settlement government without it descending into tyranny?

Pictures of Neil Armstrong's face on the Moon, and other remastered images from the Apollo era...

Poppy Northcutt discusses retrieving astronauts from the Moon, the Apollo 13 drama, and what was on channel 53...

Not one but four astronauts feature in this month’s Space Boffins...

With the first Artemis mission on the launchpad, a look ahead to the next footsteps on the Moon...

Are we seeing the end of astronauts and the rise of robotic spacefarers in our stead?

Looking ahead to Europe's mission to the red planet, and what's next for the James Webb...

This time, horticulture in orbit, 3d-printed space rovers and cleaning up space rubbish...

The next big leap for mankind in telescope terms, and the first all-woman spacewalk...

How BepiColombo looked down on Mercury as it flew by recently...

Soon to be Commander of the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, talks Dragons, Star City, and...

Pilot and International Space Station Commander, Terry Virts, on flying the Shuttle...

We celebrate the Mercury 13 mission and Wally Funk's return to the void...

The prospects for finding life on Jupiter’s icy moon...

Helen Sharman joins the Space Boffins to mark 30 years since her Juno mission...

Marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight and 40 years of the Space Shuttle...

NASA’s new rover is safely rolling around on Mars. So what awaits it?