Was the Space Shuttle fundamentally flawed, the future of the International Space Station...
Astronomy Podcasts
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
25 December 2020
There's five times more dark matter than regular matter, but what exactly is it?
15 December 2020
Marking the fifth anniversary of his mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Tim Peake tells all...
24 November 2020
What will the square kilometre array teach us?
17 November 2020
NASA has just collected a sample from an asteroid...
25 October 2020
How is it all going to end?
14 October 2020
Recognising 20 years of continuous occupation of the ISS, we bring you 7 astronauts in one show...
17 September 2020
The Space Boffins look skywards to the story of space habitation and Skylab...
12 August 2020
Celebrating the 100th Naked Scientists Space Boffins edition, with NASA’s head of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, and the UK...
10 July 2020
Mars is the destination of choice for three Mars missions this summer, with the US, China and the United Arab Emirates...
15 June 2020
Following the successful Crew Dragon launch, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman talks about the terrors of splashdown...
16 May 2020
Astronauts are preparing for the first flight in the Dragon spacecraft...
01 May 2020
Richard Hollingham celebrates Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who died in March.
14 April 2020
The famous space telescope's 30th birthday, and 50 years since one of space's luckiest escapes...
10 March 2020
New ways to study the sun and planets outside our solar system, and the show takes a philatelic slant...
10 February 2020
Recorded live at European Astrofest 2020, space law, lunar ownership and the James Webb Space Telescope...
10 January 2020
Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets, and M'n'Ms...
24 December 2019
On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's changed in astronomy over the...
13 December 2019
Seamstresses to the stars: the team who made Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
10 November 2019
What would a house on Mars look like?
15 October 2019
Virgin Orbit, Sweden's contribution to space, and an interview with the world's first spacewalker...
10 September 2019
The Boffins learn how to keep Mars safe from Earth-bugs. Plus: two Mars rovers, and a quarantine facility...
14 August 2019
Recorded at the recent Bluedot festival; preserving the Apollo sites and latest meteorite mission.
10 July 2019
Continuing the anniversary celebration - and featuring the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11...
12 June 2019
The Boffins celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings...