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Astronomy Podcasts
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
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...
25 January 2017
Elon Musk is aiming to have people on the Red Planet by 2024 so what will it be like for would-be Martians?
10 January 2017
Hubble's replacement, ballooning to the edge of the Earth and sex in space...
25 December 2016
Light is ubiquitous thanks to modern technology, and the night has never been more bright...
10 December 2016
In a bumper end of year special, Space Boffins features Buzz Aldrin, last man on the...
25 November 2016
If life is common in the universe, where is it? Graihagh Jackson tackles Fermi's paradox.
14 November 2016
Space Boffins' Sue Nelson was at ESA mission control recently when the ExoMars...
25 October 2016
Why is everyone excited about Gaia? What's so exciting about this probe? Graihagh Jackson investigates...
10 October 2016
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars...
10 September 2016
Dee O'Hara recals what it was like to work with America's first astronauts...
25 August 2016
... and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out about this hunk of space rock.
10 August 2016
Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot festival where they hear music from Cern's cosmic piano.
25 July 2016
Juno reaches Jupiter in a death-defying mission through radiation belts but what now?
10 July 2016
This month: Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking.
25 June 2016
... and should we? Or should we be looking further afield to Mars?
10 June 2016
Captain Gene Cernan and Rusty Schweickart join the Space Boffins at Spacefest in Tucson...
25 May 2016
When you look up and see thousands of stars, do you ever wonder what you are looking at?
10 May 2016
This month the Space Boffins get to grips with general relativity...
25 April 2016
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun...
10 April 2016
Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas and Martian sunsets...