Not one but two British astronauts in this edition of Space Boffins...
Astronomy Podcasts
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
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...
25 March 2016
This month, we turn our instruments inwards and look back at planet Earth...
10 March 2016
The legendary Apollo 11 astronaut reveals his thoughts on the red planet...
25 February 2016
Gravitational waves are beginning to unlock the secrets of the universe...
10 February 2016
This month on Space Boffins, it's all things rovers...
25 January 2016
When did time begin? Was it with the Big Bang or was there something before?
10 January 2016
What happens when you need surgery but are living aboard the International Space Station?
10 December 2015
Prepping for Tim Peake's launch with Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman...
10 November 2015
British astronaut, Tim Peake, bares all, from gravity and guitars to missions to Mars...
10 October 2015
On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first female cosmonaut.
10 September 2015
Now that the probe has reached the perihelion, Space Boffins ask what's next?