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Astronomy Podcasts
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
10 May 2014
Virtual rides into space, why Scotland needs a spaceport and the incoming asteroid with Earth's name on it...
10 April 2014
The Space Boffins are joined by UK minister Vince Cable on a visit to a Mars mock-up on Earth, and talk to shuttle...
10 March 2014
This month, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the challenge of looking for space aliens and why they...
10 February 2014
We meet a prototype Exo Mars rover on location at Airbus Defence & Space in Stevenage, reports on Urthecast aboard...
10 January 2014
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield.
25 December 2013
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities.
10 December 2013
The Space Boffins have a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker and...
25 November 2013
The Space Boffins report from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover...
08 November 2013
Sue reports from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover prototype.
25 October 2013
As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it...
10 October 2013
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham undergo G forces with a special podcast from QinetiQ's centrifuge.
25 September 2013
Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and...
10 September 2013
The space boffins present a special Mars-themed podcast.
25 August 2013
This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a mission to find out where the Milky Way's stars came from.
10 August 2013
The Space Boffins are joined by a cosmic hedgehog with a report from NOAA's space weather centre in Colorado.
25 July 2013
In a special episode of Naked Astronomy I travel to the UK's biggest annual astronomy meeting to catch up on the...
10 July 2013
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson go to a comet, Mars and into space.
25 June 2013
How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and how can space scientists use this to probe the Solar System...
10 June 2013
A full, frank and funny interview with Tim Peake, Richard goes inside NASA's 'crazy ideas', and Sue...
25 May 2013
The processes that can trigger a galaxy to double in brightness
10 May 2013
The Space Boffins visit Europe's largest space company and find out how to get rid of space junk.
25 April 2013
The latest results from the Planck Space Telescope, and the amateur astronomer who observes shooting stars with a...
10 April 2013
Sue and Richard meet Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden explore solar science with Lucie Green and discuss the risks of...
25 March 2013
Kirsten Gottschalk visits the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia