92 Episodes

  1. Is Time Real?

    Published: 5/28/2025

  2. BONUS - Mole People on Mars

    Published: 5/13/2025

  3. What is Gravity?

    Published: 4/24/2025

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

    Published: 4/11/2025

  5. Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

    Published: 3/31/2025

  6. BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?

    Published: 3/12/2025

  7. Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Published: 2/28/2025

  8. EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4

    Published: 2/19/2025

  9. BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?

    Published: 2/12/2025

  10. The Search for Space Aliens

    Published: 1/29/2025

  11. Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

    Published: 12/21/2024

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

    Published: 12/13/2024

  13. The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

    Published: 12/5/2024

  14. BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

    Published: 11/19/2024

  15. Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

    Published: 11/6/2024

  16. BONUS - A Bumper Edition

    Published: 10/19/2024

  17. Untangling the Cosmic Web

    Published: 10/2/2024

  18. BONUS - What distorts time?

    Published: 9/26/2024

  19. We Made It To Mercury!

    Published: 9/4/2024

  20. BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

    Published: 8/21/2024

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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 hitch-hike out of the solar system? Do we live in a multiverse? What is time? Plus Dr Robert Massey is on hand with his top star-gazing tips.Want to support the show? Join The Supermassive Club for exclusive content, star-gazing forums and ad-free listening... supermassive.supportingcast.fmAnd keep adding to The Supermassive Mailbox with your pictures and questions for the team. Send them to [email protected] or follow them on Instagram, @SupermassivePod.The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media production for the Royal Astronomical Society. The producers are Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.