Podcasts

Radio Astronomy, the podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, covers the latest space and astronomy news, including monthly stargazing tips and what to see in the night sky.

Solar activity over cycles 22-24
Credit: David Hathaway, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center

Radio Astronomy Podcast Will solar activity threaten future space missions?

Planetary scientist Emily Lakdawalla

Radio Astronomy Podcast Emily Lakdawalla talks Mars exploration

BBC Sky at Night Magazine Star Diary podcast.

Star Diary Podcast

Star Diary Podcast What's in the night sky, June 2021

NASA WMAP mission podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast 20 years of NASA's WMAP mission

Astronomer Heino Falcke pictured in front of an image of the black hole in galaxy M87.

Radio Astronomy Podcast How to photograph a black hole

Andy Weird, author of Project Hail Mary. Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images

Radio Astronomy Podcast Interview with sci-fi author Andy Weir

BBC Sky at Night Magazine Star Diary podcast.

Star Diary Podcast

Star Diary Podcast What's in the night sky, May 2021

Chanda Prescod Weinstein

Radio Astronomy Podcast Disordered Cosmos, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Harlow Shapely and Heber Curtis. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / iStock / Getty Images / Bettmann Allegheny Observatory Records, University of Pittsburgh

Podcast: How the Great Debate changed astronomy forever

Star Diary astronomy podcast. Find out what's in the night sky, March 2021

Star Diary Podcast

Star Diary Podcast What's in the night sky, April 2021

Yuri Gagarin inside the Vostok 1 space capsule just before the flight that would make him the first human in space. Photo: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Radio Astronomy Podcast 60 years since Yuri Gagarin's historic flight

Star Diary astronomy podcast. Find out what's in the night sky, March 2021

Star Diary Podcast

Star Diary Podcast What's in the night sky, March 2021

Listen to an episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast in which NASA's Jamie Bock discusses the SPHEREx mission.

Radio Astronomy Podcast How SPHEREx will track the history of the Universe

An artist's impression showing OSIRIS-REx performing a gravity assist around Earth on its way to asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

Radio Astronomy Podcast OSIRIS-Rex and the asteroid belt

Hessa Rashid Al Matroushi discusses the Emirates Mars mission on the Radio Astronomy podcast.

Radio Astronomy Podcast Emirates' mission to Mars