The Supermassive Podcast

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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.

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Is Time Real?
May 28, 2025 – 57:02
BONUS - Mole People on Mars
May 13, 2025 – 16:06
What is Gravity?
Apr 24, 2025 – 53:54
BONUS - Can we gravitationally "hitch hike" out of the Solar System?
Apr 11, 2025 – 15:01
Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer
Mar 31, 2025 – 52:08
BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?
Mar 12, 2025 – 12:03
Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Feb 28, 2025 – 46:40
EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4
Feb 19, 2025 – 13:09
BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?
Feb 12, 2025 – 16:34
The Search for Space Aliens
Jan 29, 2025 – 55:21
Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars
Dec 21, 2024 – 53:30
BONUS - Why can't anything go faster than the speed of light?
Dec 13, 2024 – 14:11
The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts
Dec 5, 2024 – 40:41
BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy
Nov 19, 2024 – 17:42
Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries
Nov 6, 2024 – 48:10
BONUS - A Bumper Edition
Oct 19, 2024 – 31:38
Untangling the Cosmic Web
Oct 2, 2024 – 43:57
BONUS - What distorts time?
Sep 26, 2024 – 15:53
We Made It To Mercury!
Sep 4, 2024 – 35:26
BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory
Aug 21, 2024 – 13:41
Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"
Aug 1, 2024 – 42:49
BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies
Jul 20, 2024 – 22:39
Q&A - Black Hole Special
Jul 3, 2024 – 50:18
BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes
Jun 21, 2024 – 14:04
The Major Lunar Standstill
Jun 4, 2024 – 47:52
BONUS - Why does the Aurora Borealis look better on my phone?
May 23, 2024 – 19:50
Voyager: Where no-one has gone before...
Apr 29, 2024 – 47:58
BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names
Apr 10, 2024 – 13:50
Into The Interstellar
Mar 26, 2024 – 45:45
BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights
Mar 13, 2024 – 12:17
Quakes in Space
Feb 28, 2024 – 53:40
BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies
Feb 12, 2024 – 13:19
The End of the World
Jan 30, 2024 – 47:52
Do We Live In A Multiverse?
Dec 22, 2023 – 48:04
BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?
Dec 21, 2023 – 13:40
Neptune... At Last!
Nov 28, 2023 – 49:46
BONUS - Space News Bulletin
Nov 14, 2023 – 28:39
46: Q&A - Spice Girls, Black Holes, and Ice-Cream in Space
Oct 27, 2023 – 40:10
45: BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?
Oct 13, 2023 – 18:45
45: Uranus the Oddball
Sep 29, 2023 – 52:42
44: BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?
Sep 18, 2023 – 13:10
44: Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science
Aug 28, 2023 – 50:21
43: BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way
Aug 11, 2023 – 11:10
43: Most of the Universe is missing...
Jul 28, 2023 – 46:09
42: BONUS – White holes, astrology and why is Venus so hot?
Jul 6, 2023 – 17:34
42: A (brief) History of Astronomy
Jun 22, 2023 – 48:41
41: BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?
Jun 13, 2023 – 14:50
41: BIG Observatories
May 27, 2023 – 45:47
40: BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?
May 13, 2023 – 15:32
40: Becky Loves Saturn
Apr 29, 2023 – 50:19