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205 episodes
2009 to present
Average episode: 44 minutes
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Categories: Astronomy • Interview-Style
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| Episodes |
| 2023-Oct-30 • 63 minutes Brits in Space! Not one but two British astronauts in this edition of Space Boffins... |
| 2023-Oct-08 • 59 minutes Shuttle Blankets and Space Burials Sending your remains skyward, and a space repair reminscent of Apollo 13... |
| 2023-Aug-28 • 42 minutes Gui Bluford, and the end of ESA's Aeolus Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the flight of the first black astronaut, and India makes it to the moon... |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 47 minutes Space junk, giant claws and dark skies Clearing up space debris and dead satellites, and tackling the issue of light pollution... |
| 2023-Jun-19 • 69 minutes Space broadcast legend and 20 years at Mars Apollo 17, Orion and working with Russia in space... |
| 2023-May-02 • 63 minutes Hitchin to Houston: NASA's new science head Artemis Moon missions, and "rapid unscheduled disassembly" go under the microscope... |
| 2023-Mar-22 • 63 minutes Juice to Jupiter and forgotten space shuttles Icy moons, magnetic fields, and life elsewhere in the solar system are under our microscope this month... |
| 2023-Mar-01 • 51 minutes Space Toilets and the New Guys What's the toilet like in SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft? |
| 2023-Mar-01 • 24 minutes Talking about Time Is time something truly fundamental to our Universe, or just an illusion? |
| 2023-Feb-06 • 71 minutes Mike Massimino and Meet the Minister A Hubble astronaut and the UK's "Space Minister" grace the podcast this month... |
| 2023-Jan-11 • 26 minutes Multiverses, the Big Bang and laws of physics Ben McAllister talks to Paul Davies on some of the biggest questions confronting cosmologists... |
| 2022-Dec-21 • 59 minutes NASA's Dr Z Nasa's outgoing head of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, discusses the James Webb Space Telescope, future missions to the Moon and Mars and research into UFOs... |
| 2022-Dec-05 • 57 minutes Cute Mars Rovers Scientists reminisce about Sprit and Opportunity... |
| 2022-Nov-15 • 55 minutes Last Man on the Moon: BONUS EPISODE For the first time in full, our interview with the last man on the Moon, Gene Cernan... |
| 2022-Oct-30 • 72 minutes Moon Trees Stuart Roosa, Moon Trees and the UAE mission to Mars... |
| 2022-Sep-30 • 62 minutes Space Tyranny! How do you design a space settlement government without it descending into tyranny? |
| 2022-Aug-27 • 61 minutes Apollo Remastered Pictures of Neil Armstrong's face on the Moon, and other remastered images from the Apollo era... |
| 2022-Jul-03 • 48 minutes Poppy Northcutt and Launch UK Poppy Northcutt discusses retrieving astronauts from the Moon, the Apollo 13 drama, and what was on channel 53... |
| 2022-May-27 • 49 minutes Lessons from an Astronaut Not one but four astronauts feature in this month's Space Boffins... |
| 2022-Apr-25 • 44 minutes Return to the Moon With the first Artemis mission on the launchpad, a look ahead to the next footsteps on the Moon... |
| 2022-Mar-01 • 54 minutes Do we need astronauts? Are we seeing the end of astronauts and the rise of robotic spacefarers in our stead? |
| 2022-Jan-28 • 60 minutes Fiery Worlds and go for Mars Looking ahead to Europe's mission to the red planet, and what's next for the James Webb... |
| 2021-Dec-15 • 53 minutes Flowers in Space This time, horticulture in orbit, 3d-printed space rovers and cleaning up space rubbish... |
| 2021-Nov-22 • 71 minutes James Webb and astronaut Jessica Meir The next big leap for mankind in telescope terms, and the first all-woman spacewalk... |
| 2021-Nov-01 • 46 minutes BepiColombo lobster eyes and Apollo legends How BepiColombo looked down on Mercury as it flew by recently... |
| 2021-Sep-29 • 31 minutes SETI: Looking for Life across the Universe Naked Astronomy goes in search of the civilisations with which we might share the cosmos... |
| 2021-Sep-10 • 55 minutes Europe leads the space station Soon to be Commander of the International Space Station, Samantha Cristoforetti, talks Dragons, Star City, and preparing for leadership... |
| 2021-Aug-12 • 54 minutes Space Station Commander Pilot and International Space Station Commander, Terry Virts, on flying the Shuttle... |
| 2021-Jul-13 • 55 minutes Wally Funk Heads for Space We celebrate the Mercury 13 mission and Wally Funk's return to the void... |
| 2021-Jun-14 • 60 minutes Mission to Europa The prospects for finding life on Jupiter's icy moon... |
| 2021-May-26 • 24 minutes Finding the God Equation Could a 1-inch equation describe all of physics? |
| 2021-May-14 • 64 minutes Britain's First Astronaut Helen Sharman joins the Space Boffins to mark 30 years since her Juno mission... |
| 2021-Apr-09 • 70 minutes Celebrating 60 years of human spaceflight Marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight and 40 years of the Space Shuttle... |
| 2021-Mar-31 • 31 minutes Storms on the Sun There's weather on Sun, but what does that mean for us on Earth? |
| 2021-Mar-11 • 37 minutes Perseverance on Mars NASA's new rover is safely rolling around on Mars. So what awaits it? |
| 2021-Feb-26 • 32 minutes What might aliens look like? Applying what we know about life on Earth, to space |
| 2021-Feb-11 • 44 minutes Space Zombies Neutron stars, astronaut recruitment and Yuri Gagarin are up for discussion this month... |
| 2021-Jan-27 • 28 minutes Is There Liquid Water on Mars? How moist is the Martian landscape? |
| 2021-Jan-13 • 53 minutes China on the Moon One country's ambitious plans for the Moon and beyond... |
| 2020-Dec-25 • 36 minutes Lighting up Dark Matter There's five times more dark matter than regular matter, but what exactly is it? |
| 2020-Dec-15 • 59 minutes Tim Peake Reveals All Marking the fifth anniversary of his mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Tim Peake tells all... |
| 2020-Nov-25 • 31 minutes The largest telescope ever made What will the square kilometre array teach us? |
| 2020-Nov-17 • 44 minutes Asteroids and Artemis NASA has just collected a sample from an asteroid... |
| 2020-Oct-25 • 28 minutes The End of the Universe How is it all going to end? |
| 2020-Oct-14 • 65 minutes Space Station Special Recognising 20 years of continuous occupation of the ISS, we bring you 7 astronauts in one show... |
| 2020-Sep-17 • 43 minutes America's first space station The Space Boffins look skywards to the story of space habitation and Skylab... |
| 2020-Aug-12 • 59 minutes Space Boffins celebrate their century Celebrating the 100th Naked Scientists Space Boffins edition, with NASA's head of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, and the UK Space Agency's Libby Jackson... |
| 2020-Jul-14 • 43 minutes 2020 Missions to Mars Mars is the destination of choice for three Mars missions this summer, with the US, China and the United Arab Emirates all preparing for launch... |
| 2020-Jun-15 • 52 minutes Splashdown! Following the successful Crew Dragon launch, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman talks about the terrors of splashdown... |
| 2020-May-10 • 41 minutes Maiden Flight Astronauts are preparing for the first flight in the Dragon spacecraft... |
| 2020-May-01 • 36 minutes The Loneliest Human: Space Boffins Special Richard Hollingham celebrates Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who died in March. |
| 2020-Apr-14 • 36 minutes Cubesats, Hubble and Apollo 13 Trouble The famous space telescope's 30th birthday, and 50 years since one of space's luckiest escapes... |
| 2020-Mar-10 • 45 minutes Solar Orbiter, stamps and exoplanets New ways to study the sun and planets outside our solar system, and the show takes a philatelic slant... |
| 2020-Feb-10 • 37 minutes Hubble, TRUTHS and space Law Recorded live at European Astrofest 2020, space law, lunar ownership and the James Webb Space Telescope... |
| 2020-Jan-10 • 41 minutes Robot Arms and Space Toilets Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets, and M'n'Ms... |
| 2019-Dec-24 • 38 minutes 2020 State of the Universe Address On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's changed in astronomy over the last decade? |
| 2019-Dec-13 Glove Actually and the Sew Sisters Seamstresses to the stars: the team who made Neil Armstrong's spacesuit |
| 2019-Nov-10 • 52 minutes Moving to Mars What would a house on Mars look like? |
| 2019-Oct-15 • 44 minutes Cosmic Girl - from California to Cornwall Virgin Orbit, Sweden's contribution to space, and an interview with the world's first spacewalker... |
| 2019-Sep-10 • 45 minutes Boffins on Mars The Boffins learn how to keep Mars safe from Earth-bugs. Plus: two Mars rovers, and a quarantine facility... |
| 2019-Aug-10 • 38 minutes Lunar Heritage and Lost Meteorites Recorded at the recent Bluedot festival; preserving the Apollo sites and latest meteorite mission. |
| 2019-Jul-10 • 57 minutes Apollo 11 Special (Part 2) Continuing the anniversary celebration - and featuring the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11... |
| 2019-Jun-10 • 55 minutes Apollo 11 Special (Part 1) The Boffins celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings... |
| 2019-May-16 • 30 minutes Remarkable Women: A hidden history Sue Nelson interviews two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk. |
| 2019-Apr-10 • 48 minutes Giant Rockets to the Moon The Space Boffins get to see inside the NASA's famous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre - a building so large that it has its own weather system. It's being adapted so that NASA's Saturn V replacement the new SLS or... |
| 2019-Mar-11 • 31 minutes Spacecraft Reunited This month Space Boffins contemplates the missing universe, the nature of humanity and reunites astronaut Nicole Stott with her Space Shuttle Atlantis. Richard Hollingham is joined by theoretical physicist and comedian Dr Fran Day to... |
| 2019-Feb-11 • 29 minutes Astrofest Live! Space Boffins have a stellar line-up of guests at Astrofest 2019... |
| 2019-Jan-16 • 40 minutes Flying hotdogs Mice and flying hotdogs on the podcast as we report from NASA on how to save Apollo's famous mission control and discuss China's landing on the far side of the Moon. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are in Milton Keynes where... |
| 2018-Dec-13 • 50 minutes Mission to the Moon Apollo 8 commander, Frank Borman, joins Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson in this month's podcast. Fifty years ago Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to orbit the Moon and so the podcast has a lunar theme. Recorded at... |
| 2018-Nov-12 • 31 minutes Don't call me Fruit Loops! The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino. Recorded on the Hudson River from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid - where Massimino works once a week - Space Boffins... |
| 2018-Oct-10 • 29 minutes Space Boffins Live ESA Special Astronaut Paolo Nespoli joins Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency's ESTEC facility in The Netherlands during their Open Day. Thousands of people travel from across... |
| 2018-Sep-11 • 28 minutes Spy Satellite Special In a special edition of Space Boffins, Richard Hollingham meets a man rarer than a Moonwalker - a spy satellite engineer. Phil Pressel led the team that built the camera for the Hexagon spy satellite system - the most complicated satellite... |
| 2018-Aug-10 • 42 minutes Space Boffins Blast Off! It's a rocket special on this month's Space Boffins with Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham. As the UK's plans for a Spaceport forge ahead, two microlauncher companies are at the forefront of a commercial space race for launching small... |
| 2018-Jul-10 • 46 minutes Rockets in the Jungle It's the 7th anniversary of Space Boffins and Sue and Richard are joined by BBC Science Correspondent, Jonathan Amos - a guest on the very first podcast. Meanwhile, Richard reports from the new Ariane 6 launchpad being built at the European... |
| 2018-Jun-10 • 53 minutes Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo Magnificent Mercury is in full focus. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are at the National Space Centre in Leicester with BepiColombo mission scientists Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Suzie Imber. They also visit London's... |
| 2018-May-11 • 43 minutes Sampling An Asteroid Asteroid expert Professor Simon Green joins the Space Boffins to discuss missions to collect samples from space rocks and return them to Earth, and the perils of re-directing asteroids heading our way. Richard and Sue also chat to Romanian... |
| 2018-Apr-10 • 38 minutes Water on Mars After 2000 days on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is still going strong. In this month's Space Boffins Richard visits Imperial College London to talk to one of the lead scientists on the mission, Sanjeev Gupta, about water on Mars, life and... |
| 2018-Mar-12 • 43 minutes Killer Asteroids Could life on Earth be wiped out by a killer asteroid? The short answer is yes. This month the Space Boffins hear about a new European telescope to spot the threat before it's too late. Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined at the... |
| 2018-Feb-09 • 47 minutes Space, Boffins & Rock Stars Queen guitarist, rock star and astronomer Brian May adds some celebrity stardust and big hair on this month's podcast for the launch of the 2019 Starmus Festival. May talks about the essential humanity of a science, arts and music overlap... |
| 2018-Jan-10 • 43 minutes Zero G Sue bags a flight on Europe's 'Zero G' aircraft to experience microgravity. Back in the studio, Richard and Sue are joined by Libby Jackson from the UK Space Agency to discuss her new book on women in space. And the Boffins celebrate the... |
| 2017-Dec-11 • 45 minutes Space Highlights of 2017 Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined by space journalist Sarah Cruddas and rocket insurer, David Wade, to discuss 2017 and look ahead to 2018 in space. Featuring genetically engineered astronauts, Cassini and giant private rockets,... |
| 2017-Nov-10 • 49 minutes How to Leave the Planet This month, TV science presenter Dallas Campbell joins Sue and Richard to discuss how to leave the planet. The Space Boffins also hear from Apollo 15 legend Al Worden, who spent 3 days isolated in his space capsule around the Moon. And what... |
| 2017-Oct-10 • 47 minutes Space Boffins Explore ESTEC Two astronauts and an Imperial Storm Trooper join the Space Boffins podcast from The Netherlands at the European Space Agency's ESTEC Open Day - where thousands of people can see the Agency's spacecraft testing facilities and meet the... |
| 2017-Sep-10 • 42 minutes Cassini's Grand Finale Space Boffins Sue Nelson, Richard Hollingham and studio guest Sarah Cruddas talk rockets, total eclipses and Cassini's final days at Saturn. Apollo, Mercury and Shuttle propulsions engineer John Tribe reminisces about his incredible career... |
| 2017-Aug-10 • 47 minutes Extraterrestrial Humans This month, European astronaut Luca Parmitano suggests a future for genetically engineered space travellers, the Space Boffins celebrate 40 years of the Voyager mission and look forward to the demise of Cassini, shortly to plunge into... |
| 2017-Jul-10 • 31 minutes Mission To Mercury Space Boffins Sue Nelson and the Guardian's Stuart Clark are at the European Space Agency's ESTEC facility in The Netherlands to see the BepiColombo spacecraft - Europe's mission to Mercury. As the LISA Pathfinder mission comes to a... |
| 2017-Jun-10 • 36 minutes Missions to Mars The Space Boffins return to Mars to hear about progress on the plus-sized US and petite European rovers. Recorded in the Mars Yard in Stevenage, Richard and Sue are joined by guests Abbie Hutty from Airbus and science journalist Stuart... |
| 2017-May-10 • 33 minutes Space Alien Special Richard is at SETI in California to hunt space aliens with the institute's chief astronomer, Seth Shostak. He also reports from the iconic Parkes space telescope in Australia on the Breakthrough Listen hunt for ET. And, in the search for... |
| 2017-Apr-10 • 42 minutes Mission Control This month, Space Boffins highlights the unsung heroes of the space programme - mission controllers. Featuring the director of a new documentary film on mission control, David Fairhhead, we hear from a man at the heart of the Apollo 13... |
| 2017-Mar-10 • 41 minutes Space Tomatoes in Urine SpaceX and NASA compete to get people back to the Moon, Richard meets a man who grows space tomatoes in human urine, and heads to a lab where volunteers are being paid to stay awake. This month, Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined... |
| 2017-Feb-10 • 40 minutes Space Boffins at Astrofest The Space Boffins are at Astrofest in London in front of a live audience. Guests include an Antarctic meteorite hunter, the scientist tracking down the Solar System's missing planet and the flight director who's landed a spacecraft on a... |
| 2017-Jan-25 • 33 minutes Welcome to Mars Elon Musk is aiming to have people on the Red Planet by 2024 so what will it be like for would-be Martians? |
| 2017-Jan-10 • 47 minutes Double Hubble Broadcaster Dallas Campbell joins the Space Boffins at the British Interplanetary Society to discuss the giant new replacement for Hubble, hypersonic spaceplanes and balloon flights to the edge of space. They hear from astronaut Ron Garan... |
| 2016-Dec-25 • 23 minutes The End of Night? As we enter the darkest depths of winter, the days get shorter and the nights get longer. Or at least that's how it's supposed to be. But since the invention of the light bulb, we've long been working towards the end of night. But does this... |
| 2016-Dec-10 • 45 minutes The Best of Space Boffins In a bumper end of year special, Space Boffins features Buzz Aldrin, last man on the... |
| 2016-Nov-25 • 28 minutes Where is everybody? If life is common in the universe, where is it? Graihagh Jackson tackles Fermi's paradox. |
| 2016-Nov-14 • 40 minutes X15: To Infinity and Beyond! Space Boffins' Sue Nelson was at ESA mission control recently when the ExoMars... |
| 2016-Oct-25 • 23 minutes Going Gaga Over Gaia ...but why? What's so exciting about this probe? Graihagh Jackson investigates... |
| 2016-Oct-10 • 42 minutes Roving Over Mars Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars... |
| 2016-Sep-10 • 46 minutes Nursing NASA's Astronauts Dee O'Hara recals what it was like to work with America's first astronauts... |
| 2016-Aug-25 • 25 minutes Connie won a meteorite ...and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out about this hunk of space rock. |
| 2016-Aug-10 • 36 minutes From The Blue Dot Festival Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot festival where they hear music from Cern's cosmic piano. |
| 2016-Jul-25 • 25 minutes Jupiter: King of the Planets Juno reaches Jupiter in a death-defying mission through radiation belts but what now? |
| 2016-Jul-10 • 41 minutes Jupiter's Juno Mission This month: Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking. |
| 2016-Jun-25 • 31 minutes Will we ever return to the moon? ...and should we? Or should we be looking further afield to Mars? |
| 2016-Jun-10 • 35 minutes Hot from Spacefest Captain Gene Cernan and Rusty Schweickart join the Space Boffins at Spacefest in Tucson... |
| 2016-May-25 • 38 minutes Reaching for the Stars When you look up and see thousands of stars, do you ever wonder what you are looking at? |
| 2016-May-10 • 40 minutes Have you been mis-sold time? This month the Space Boffins get to grips with general relativity... |
| 2016-Apr-25 • 26 minutes Eyes on the Sky for Mercury On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun... |
| 2016-Apr-10 • 38 minutes Riding on a Space Sofa Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas and Martian sunsets... |
| 2016-Mar-25 • 27 minutes Adventures in Satspotting This month, we turn our instruments inwards and look back at planet Earth... |
| 2016-Mar-10 • 24 minutes Buzz Aldrin and his master plan for Mars The legendary Apollo 11 astronaut reveals his thoughts on the red planet... |
| 2016-Feb-25 • 34 minutes The Next Revolution in Astronomy: Gravitational Waves Gravitational waves are beginning to unlock the secrets of the universe... |
| 2016-Feb-10 • 43 minutes Russian Lunar Rovers and Floating Number Twos This month on Space Boffins, it's all things rovers... |
| 2016-Jan-25 • 31 minutes Cosmic Quandries: The Origins of Time When did time begin? Was it with the Big Bang or was there something before? |
| 2016-Jan-10 • 39 minutes Surgery in Space What happens when you need surgery but are living aboard the International Space Station? |
| 2015-Dec-10 • 39 minutes Christmas in Space Prepping for Tim Peake's launch with Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman... |
| 2015-Nov-10 • 37 minutes Gravity and Guitars with Tim Peake British astronaut, Tim Peake, bares all, from gravity and guitars to missions to Mars... |
| 2015-Oct-10 • 40 minutes The First Woman in Space On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first female cosmonaut. |
| 2015-Sep-10 • 35 minutes Done and Dusted: What's Next for Rosetta? Now that the probe has reached the perihelion, Space Boffins ask what's next? |
| 2015-Aug-12 • 34 minutes Hello, this is the International Space Station In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA... |
| 2015-Jul-13 • 41 minutes Rocketing into Space Recent rocket fails; a village on the moon and is space exploration good for all? |
| 2015-Jun-10 • 22 minutes How to Fly a Space Shuttle Eileen Collins talks of flying shuttles and how female astronauts are treated by the media |
| 2015-May-10 • 28 minutes Rosetta: Six Months Later Six months after the historic landing the Space Boffins catch up with the Rosetta team. |
| 2015-Apr-16 • 37 minutes Out of this World: Britain's history in space Space Boffins visit the original Apollo 10 craft; Skylon's spaceplane and ExoMars mission. |
| 2015-Mar-10 • 38 minutes All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket How NASA's Space Launch System is getting along and Europe's new mission to Mercury.... |
| 2015-Feb-10 • 34 minutes Recovering Beagle 2 from Mars Why we should rescue Beagle 2; why Uranus should be next on the agenda; and space music.. |
| 2015-Jan-10 • 38 minutes Space Exploration in 2015 Space Boffins look forward to the most exciting missions of 2015... |
| 2014-Dec-10 • 36 minutes Orion: the first step to Mars? How astronauts get their caffeine fix in space, the future of NASA and the Orion launch... |
| 2014-Nov-14 • 39 minutes Space: triumph and tragedy Rosetta's comet landing, the tragedy of SpaceShipTwo and a man who commands a Mars base. |
| 2014-Oct-10 • 29 minutes ESTEC: The heart of the European Space Agency New spaceplanes, chocolate comets and the future of space travel... |
| 2014-Sep-10 • 34 minutes The Spacewalk from Hell A song about photons, how to choose a landing site on a comet and the spacewalk from hell |
| 2014-Aug-10 • 27 minutes The Last Man on the Moon Space Boffins speak to the last man to ever set foot on the Moon, Gene Cernan. |
| 2014-Jul-10 • 30 minutes Rescuing astronauts from space How do you orbit a comet? Set up a government in space or rescue a space shuttle crew? |
| 2014-Jun-10 • 34 minutes Drowning in Space How to build a the ultimate spaceship, what it's like to drown in space and Google's new satellite. |
| 2014-May-10 • 29 minutes Virtual Rides into Space Virtual rides into space, why Scotland needs a spaceport and the incoming asteroid with Earth's name on it... |
| 2014-Apr-10 • 34 minutes The Mars Yard The Space Boffins are joined by UK minister Vince Cable on a visit to a Mars mock-up on Earth, and talk to shuttle astronaut Jon McBride... |
| 2014-Mar-10 • 36 minutes Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence This month, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the challenge of looking for space aliens and why they never attack Belgium... |
| 2014-Feb-10 • 30 minutes Exo Mars and Crowd-funded SpaceCraft We meet a prototype Exo Mars rover on location at Airbus Defence & Space in Stevenage, reports on Urthecast aboard the ISS, and KickSat... |
| 2014-Jan-10 • 26 minutes Chris Hadfield: How to fix a space toilet Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. |
| 2013-Dec-25 • 27 minutes Astronomy in South Africa Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities. |
| 2013-Dec-10 • 38 minutes The future of lunar space missions The Space Boffins have a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker and Gareth Jones. |
| 2013-Nov-25 • 40 minutes The Space Boffins look forward to ExoMars The Space Boffins report from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover prototype. |
| 2013-Nov-08 • 40 minutes Looking forward to ExoMars Sue reports from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover prototype. |
| 2013-Oct-25 • 29 minutes Comet ISON is coming! As Comet ISON draws near to its close approach with the Sun in November, much uncertainty remains over how brilliant it will be. |
| 2013-Oct-10 • 38 minutes Sue in a Centrifuge Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham undergo G forces with a special podcast from QinetiQ's centrifuge. |
| 2013-Sep-25 • 49 minutes Exploring the Solar System Dominic Ford reports from the European Planetary Science Congress, where he heard about the latest misisons to Mars and the Moon. |
| 2013-Sep-10 • 37 minutes Missions to Mars The space boffins present a special Mars-themed podcast. |
| 2013-Aug-25 • 56 minutes Mapping out the Milky Way This autumn, the Gaia spacecraft will be launched on a mission to find out where the Milky Way's stars came from. |
| 2013-Aug-10 • 38 minutes NOAA's Space Weather Centre The Space Boffins are joined by a cosmic hedgehog with a report from NOAA's space weather centre in Colorado. |
| 2013-Jul-25 • 54 minutes The National Astronomy Meeting 2013 In a special episode of Naked Astronomy I travel to the UK's biggest annual astronomy meeting to catch up on the latest space science. |
| 2013-Jul-10 • 35 minutes Landing on a Comet Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson go to a comet, Mars and into space. |
| 2013-Jun-25 • 53 minutes Giant planets How much detail can amateur astronomers see on Jupiter, and how can space scientists use this to probe the Solar System's largest storms? |
| 2013-Jun-10 • 32 minutes Britain's First Official Astronaut A full, frank and funny interview with Tim Peake, Richard goes inside NASA's 'crazy ideas', and Sue meets with 'astrogirls'. |
| 2013-May-25 • 60 minutes The Milky Way's local black hole The processes that can trigger a galaxy to double in brightness |
| 2013-May-10 • 34 minutes Dodging Space Harpoons The Space Boffins visit Europe's largest space company and find out how to get rid of space junk. |
| 2013-Apr-25 • 59 minutes Measuring the Universe The latest results from the Planck Space Telescope, and the amateur astronomer who observes shooting stars with a security camera. |
| 2013-Apr-10 • 34 minutes Solar Science and Space Planes Sue and Richard meet Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden explore solar science with Lucie Green and discuss the risks of flying space planes... |
| 2013-Mar-25 • 30 minutes Radio Astronomy in the Australian Outback Kirsten Gottschalk visits the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia |
| 2013-Mar-10 • 30 minutes The First Phone in Space Comets, Mars and the first phone in space are featured in the latest Space Boffins podcast. Recorded at London's Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 2013-Feb-25 • 58 minutes Captivated by Comets 2013 looks like a good year for comets! We find out where these balls of dust and ice come from and what to expect from Pan-STARRS and ISON. |
| 2013-Feb-10 • 34 minutes Methane on Mars and Meeting Astronauts The Space Boffins meet British astronaut Tim Peake at the British Interplanetary Society, and discuss Martian methane, the future of the British Interplanetary Society and Enceladus' icy plumes. |
| 2013-Jan-10 • 38 minutes Don't Panic! Keeping Your Cool in Space Why space can damage your health, live views of Earth from the Space Station and crisis management tips from an Apollo 13 Flight Director... |
| 2012-Dec-13 • 53 minutes Dealing With Debris How can we solve the space debris problem? What will we learn from LOFAR? This month, we meet TechDemoSat and catch up with Curiosity! |
| 2012-Dec-10 • 34 minutes Space Boffins on the ISS The Space Boffins take a tour of the International Space Station, meet an Apollo astronaut and discuss the politics of space toilets... |
| 2012-Nov-10 • 29 minutes Houston, we have a Podcast This time the award winning Space Boffins podcast comes from Houston to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the last man on the Moon... |
| 2012-Oct-25 • 59 minutes New Science with NuSTAR How can we measure some of the most energetic events in the universe? This month, we're exploring the new science being carried out by NuSTAR, a space-based high-energy x-ray telescope. Plus, we'll find out why being outside the... |
| 2012-Oct-10 • 30 minutes Space Boffins Search for ET The Space Boffins Podcast comes to you this month from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in Silicon Valley California and features the search for life and Earth 2.0. Richard talks to SETI's Senior Astronomer, Sue reports... |
| 2012-Sep-25 • 59 minutes Excitement about ALMA How can we see stars as they first come into being? This month, we're looking at ALMA - the Atacama Large Millimetre Array - possibly the most complicated telescope to date, that promises to peer into star forming regions.Plus, we chat to... |
| 2012-Sep-10 • 30 minutes Mars InSights, rings around Saturn and satellite docking games... A new mission to Mars, how Kinect games consoles are assisting with satellite docking and new data from the rings of Saturn... |
| 2012-Aug-24 • 53 minutes Martian Matters Why are we still curious about Mars? This month on Naked Astronomy, we're looking into Martian matters to find out how we got to where we are today, ushering in a new era of Martian discoveries from the Mars Science Laboratory. Also,... |
| 2012-Aug-10 • 30 minutes The First American Spacewalk This month on the Space Boffins Podcast, we will be exploring strange new worlds, discovering a Swedish spaceport, and celebrating the first American space walk. Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson meet the team sending a mobile phone-based... |
| 2012-Jul-25 • 60 minutes Finding Impossible Stars When does the impossible become possible? Researchers have found Red Dwarf stars that simply shouldn't exist, so in this month's Naked Astronomy we find out how theory needs to catch up with observations. Also, how do citizen scientists... |
| 2012-Jul-10 • 30 minutes Work, rest and play: Mars and space tourism NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission lands on Mars next month after a nine-month journey across our Solar System. On arrival the most advanced suite of instruments ever sent to the red planet will get to work. In this edition of... |
| 2012-Jun-25 • 58 minutes Plant Pathogens Observed From Orbit What can farmers learn from physicists? This month in Naked Astronomy we'll find out how satellite imaging can help to understand and control crop diseases, as well as how precisely timed pulsars point to gravitational waves. Plus, a... |
| 2012-Jun-10 • 30 minutes Introducing Space Boffins! This week at Naked Astronomy, we're launching something very special. We've teamed up with the Space Boffins podcast to bring you even more space science. Each month, Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson will be exploring the science and... |
| 2012-May-25 • 54 minutes The Dominant Force in the Universe When did Dark Energy become the dominant force in the universe? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we look back at the history of our expanding universe to find out when gravity lost its grip. We also examine the global trade in meteorites... |
| 2012-Apr-02 • 60 minutes The National Astronomy Meeting 2012 How do tornadoes form on the Sun? Why does Jupiter enhance our Meteor showers? And how can pulsars be used as a deep space positioning system? This month's Naked Astronomy comes from the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy... |
| 2012-Feb-25 • 53 minutes Naked Astronomy AstroFest Special Is an asteroid impact more likely than winning the lottery? What can Moon rock tell us about the Earth? And how did a biology teacher discover a new astronomical object? In this Naked Astronomy AstroFest special, we'll ask if the Kepler... |
| 2012-Jan-25 • 58 minutes Meeting MIRI and Detecting Dark Matter Can a mid-infra red view reveal the universe's secrets? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we meet MIRI, the Mid Infra Red Instrument set to launch on the James Webb Space Telescope. It should give us a glimpse of the very first galaxies... |
| 2011-Dec-20 • 59 minutes Seeing Your House from the Space Station If you could look down from the International Space Station, what would you look at? This month on Naked Astronomy, we discover UrtheCast - a system that could let you point a camera down from the International Space Station, and integrate... |
| 2011-Nov-25 • 62 minutes Stars and Supernovae Can supernovae account for all of the oxygen in the universe? What happens to massive stars at the end of their lives? This month, we delve into stellar science to look at the ultimate fate of stars, and why the first stars might be... |
| 2011-Oct-25 • 58 minutes Blue Stragglers and the Polarised Universe What are the mysterious blue straggler stars? In this month's Naked Astronomy we'll findout why some stars stand out from the crowd, as well as investigate the polarity of the universe. Plus, we hear the latest news from the... |
| 2011-Sep-25 • 54 minutes Dark Planets and Dark Matter Are the foundations of Dark Matter crumbling? How can a planet be blacker than black paint? What are the sunsets like on a planet with 2 suns? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we'll discover Kepler-16b; a planet with two suns, we look to... |
| 2011-Jul-25 • 59 minutes The Year In Space Science We look back over the last few months of Astronomy interviews. We'll hear how scientists search for planets in the glare of their parent star, why a simulated mission to Mars will help us to understand how astronauts will cope... |
| 2011-Jun-25 • 60 minutes Star Death, STEREO & South Africa's SKA bid What happens when a black hole rips a star to shreds? What can a solar science mission tell us about other stars? And is South Africa prepared for the largest radio telescope ever planned? This month... |
| 2011-May-25 • 58 minutes The Birth of Sunspots and Black Hole Collisions How are sunspots born? What does a black hole collision look like? How long does it take to make a full-size galaxy? This month on Naked Astronomy, we find out why people searching for pulsars might spot colliding black holes in their... |
| 2011-Apr-22 • 61 minutes The National Astronomy Meeting 2011 In this special podcast from the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, we hear how twisted sunspots cause solar flares, how 17th century poetry can put a date on a supernova, and why some pulsars are part-timers. We'll find out how... |
| 2011-Mar-25 • 51 minutes Astronomy at the Cambridge Science Festival In this special edition of the Naked Astronomy podcast we look at the astronomical events held at the Cambridge Science Festival. We'll hear from Dr Dan Stark about exploring the early Universe, find out what tooth x-rays and telescopes... |
| 2011-Feb-25 • 62 minutes Kepler 11 - A Unique Extrasolar System In this month's Naked Astronomy, we explore the unique system of six planets orbiting the star Kepler 11, and find out what to expect from the James Webb Space Telescope. Plus news of the runaway star spotted by WISE - the Wide-field... |
| 2011-Jan-25 • 58 minutes Antimatter Storms and the Universe's Dark Ages This month on Naked Astronomy, we discover the streams of antimatter coming from lightning on Earth, and find out how to study the stars that ended the dark ages and brought light to the universe. We hear about Jupiter's role in Earth... |
| 2010-Dec-25 • 64 minutes Lessons from the Past This month, we read the history of Martian science in a collection of globes, and find out why it's important to understand ancient and aboriginal astronomy. We find out why some Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are shrouded in darkness, discuss... |
| 2010-Nov-25 • 63 minutes A Decade of Living in Space The International Space Station celebrated 10 years of habitation this month, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of life in orbit. We find out more about living in space, as well as discover new gravitational lenses in this month's... |
| 2010-Oct-25 • 62 minutes An Alien's Eye View and Cosmic Climate Change What would an extrasolar observer see of our solar system? We find out in this month's Naked Astronomy as well as explore the events that led to climate change on a cosmic scale. Plus, news of an asteroid flyby, surfing Venus' atmosphere... |
| 2010-Sep-25 • 55 minutes Making Steam Inside Stars How do you make steam inside a star? We explore the science of solar chemistry to find out how water molecules are created inside the envelope of red giants and We get an delegates-eye-view of the European Planetary Science Congress in... |
| 2010-Aug-25 • 46 minutes Is Our Solar System Strange? Is our solar system normal? We compare ourselves to the ever increasing list of exoplanets to find out if we're the weird ones in the universe in this month's Naked Astronomy. Also, we explore the Nili Fossae region of Mars, where the... |
| 2010-Jul-25 • 54 minutes The Biggest Questions in the Universe How do you answer the biggest questions in the Universe? In this month's Naked Astronomy, we'll find out how Stuart Clark tackles these issues, why satellites the size of a Rubic's cube can help launch new and innovative technology, and... |
| 2010-Jun-25 • 47 minutes Watching Worlds Wander Can we watch whole worlds wandering? We'll explore the mechanisms of - and evidence for - planetary migration in this month's Naked Astronomy, and find out if migration in our own solar system can account for Earth's violent history. ... |
| 2010-May-25 • 51 minutes The Brightest Events in the Universe Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest events in the Universe. They shine like beacons, revealing the existence of galaxies we couldn't previously see, but what are they now showing astronomers? Also, we focus on the engineering challenges of... |
| 2010-Apr-25 • 49 minutes Riding in a Comet's Wake We find out how to measure a comet by riding in it's wake in this Naked Astronomy, as well as explore the latest exhibit in the Galaxy Zoo - brand new Hubble Space Telescope images. Plus, spotting a lightning strike on Saturn, Venusian... |
| 2010-Mar-25 • 66 minutes Is there anybody out there? Is our galaxy home to aliens? Well, yes, but only if you're talking about clusters of stars. We find out how the Milky Way has stolen globular clusters from other galaxies on this month's Naked Astronomy, as well as explore why our search... |
| 2010-Feb-25 • 58 minutes What's Hiding in the Starlight? Blocking the light from a star is the only way to see some extra solar planets, as we find out in this month's Naked Astronomy. We discover how small, precise optics can do this job for us, as well as explore some of the current missions... |
| 2010-Jan-25 • 53 minutes How to Spot a Supernova We find out how to identify an exploding star in this edition of Naked Astronomy, with record holder and super supernovae spotter Tom Boles. Plus, how the Faulkes Telescope Project puts schoolchildren in charge of a 5 million pound... |
| 2009-Dec-25 • 49 minutes Is there a planet beyond Pluto? In this edition of Naked Astronomy, why scientists are making mud in the laboratory to try free a trapped Mars rover, the discs that give birth to new planets, the space equivalent of an ordnance survey map for the stars and how scientists... |
| 2009-Nov-20 • 52 minutes The Oldest Light in the Universe In this launch edition of Naked Astronomy, we report on how the Planck probe is seeing the oldest light in the Universe, the Rosetta mission flyby en-route to a distant comet, how LCROSS executed a deft lunar impact and what it revealed,... |