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The Supermassive Podcast

The Royal Astronomical Society

The UK's #1 space podcast. Science journalist Izzie Clarke and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst whizz through the universe to explore the latest research with leading experts, dive to history from the society’s archives and take on your weird and wonderful questions about all things space. Can we gravitationally…

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The Supermassive Podcast

The Kuiper Belt...Revisited

Colanders and is space a stew?

Top Tips To See The Eclipse

Q&A: Could Dark Matter Be Space Vampires?

Can Time Travel be sped up? What is the Bootes Void? And G'day to Australians

What the heck are neutrinos?

Why Is There Motion in the Universe?

How Do Space Telescopes Work?

Did Gravity Wipe Out The Dinosaurs?

Into the Space Debris Swamp

Our Artemis II Debrief

When Space Goes Rogue....

Black holes in the lab and meeting Ryan Gosling

What is the Hubble Tension?

2026: The year in space... And at sea?!

Q&A: Meteors, Artemis II, and Space Bathtubs

How to Time Travel

Slingshots, Christmas Presents & Alien Communication

Protecting Our Dark Skies

Supermassive Gone Rogue

A Watery History of Mars

Mercury, Gemini and Pringles

Don't Panic…but a solar storm could be a disaster

Are we Living in a Black Hole?

Supermassive Q and A...Live!

What Shape is Space?

Astronauts. Do we need them?

Where are Earth's rings?

Why isn't Pluto a planet?

BONUS - Why aren’t stars closer together?

Is Time Real?

BONUS - Mole People on Mars

What is Gravity?

BONUS - Can we gravitationally "hitch hike" out of the Solar System?

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?

Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4

BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?

The Search for Space Aliens

Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

BONUS - A Bumper Edition

Untangling the Cosmic Web

BONUS - What distorts time?

We Made It To Mercury!

BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"

BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies

Q&A - Black Hole Special

BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes

The Major Lunar Standstill

BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?

Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...

BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names

Into The Interstellar

BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights

Quakes in Space

BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies

The End of the World

Do We Live In A Multiverse?

BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?

Neptune... At Last!

BONUS - Space News Bulletin

Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space

BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?

Uranus the Oddball

BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?

Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science

BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way

Most of the Universe is missing...

BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?

A (brief) History of Astronomy

BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?

BIG Observatories

BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?