Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
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 Trib…
00:41:52 |
Sat 09 Sep 2017
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…
00:46:42 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
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 L…
00:31:07 |
Sun 09 Jul 2017
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 …
00:35:58 |
Fri 09 Jun 2017
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 List…
00:33:12 |
Tue 09 May 2017
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 Fairhead, we hear from …
00:42:21 |
Sun 09 Apr 2017
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, Rich…
00:41:16 |
Fri 10 Mar 2017
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 di…
00:39:52 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Welcome to Mars
This time, we're journeying to the Ruby Red Planet, Mars. Elon Musk thinks he'll have people there by 2024; NASA will be following closely behind with a touchdown expected in the 2030s. That means th…
00:32:45 |
Wed 25 Jan 2017
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 sp…
00:46:55 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
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 workin…
00:22:48 |
Sun 25 Dec 2016
The Best of Space Boffins
In a bumper end of year special, Space Boffins features Buzz Aldrin, last man on the Moon Gene Cernan, the nurse to the astronauts, a cosmic piano and a space sofa. Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham …
00:44:50 |
Sat 10 Dec 2016
Where is everybody?
Most astrophysicists would agree that it's highly likely that there's life beyond Earth. But then why haven't we found any? This month on Naked Astronomy, Graihagh Jackson tackles one of the fundamen…
00:28:01 |
Fri 25 Nov 2016
X15: To Infinity and Beyond!
Space Boffins' Sue Nelson was at ESA mission control recently when the ExoMars spacecraft arrived at Mars after a seven month journey. She hears from ExoMars and Open University scientist Dr Manish P…
00:39:40 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Going Gaga Over Gaia
Gaia launched back in 2013 and has been mapping the Milky Way ever since. In fact, it aims to give us the most detailed survey of our galaxy, ever. But is that all its set to do? Graihagh Jackson exp…
00:23:16 |
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Roving Over Mars
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars - which turns out to be behind a blue door in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage. With guest Airbus head of science, Ralph Cordey, they di…
00:41:41 |
Mon 10 Oct 2016
Nursing NASA's Astronauts
The Space Boffins meet the Mercury 7 nurse, Dee O'Hara, recalling what it was like to work with America's first astronauts. SETI's Seth Shostak explains why we should target AI to discover ET, and - …
00:45:58 |
Fri 09 Sep 2016
Connie won a meteorite
Fellow Naked Scientist Connie Orbach won a meteorite and so Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out as much as possible about this hunk of space rock, including how she might go about findin…
00:24:57 |
Wed 24 Aug 2016
From The Blue Dot Festival
The Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot music festival at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire where they hear live music from Cern's cosmic piano and chat to Rosetta project scientist (and space celebrity) Matt T…
00:35:34 |
Tue 09 Aug 2016
Jupiter: King of the Planets
NASA's Juno probe has reached Jupiter after a five year battle through our solar system and is orbiting the gas giant. But now it's completed this death-defying stunt, what now? This month on Naked A…
00:25:09 |
Sun 24 Jul 2016
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