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Following a recent NASA press conference – a regular event that fills us with dread as we anticipate an anticlimax – this time NASA really get us exci...

The Discussion: Jeni's been teaching the teachers of Wales how to include astronomy in their classroom exercises as part of the school curriculum. Ral...

What to look out, and up, for in March. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: The ...

This podcast extra takes a look back at the extraordinary life of navy aviator, test pilot and astronaut Gene Cernan who tragically died last month at...

The Discussion: Paul continues his herculean travels around the UK promoting the European Space Agency and teaching people about the science of spacef...

What to look out, and up, for in February. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: A...

This podcast extra takes a look at the proposals from Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop a lunar space station for NASA. In this discussion...

The Discussion: As we welcome in the New Year Paul's been mixing science with art, Jeni's professional astronomy looks to be taking her to South Afric...

What to look out, and up, for in January. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers: Ve...

Awesome Astronomy's 2016 Christmas Panto. Think: HG Wells' War of the Worlds meets Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. The Eve of the War: P...

The Discussion: This month we take a look at the recent supermoon and what it takes to make the moon 'super'; Jeni goes teaching kids about space and ...

What to look out, and up, for in December. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Ve...

Perhaps the most frequently asked question to the show (and apologies to Terry Dunlin who asked this question about 2 years ago!) is what you need to ...

The Discussion: In a month when the European Space Agency succeeded and failed in the first part of their Exomars saga, we go through the glory and th...

What to look out, and up, for in November. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offers to observers and imagers: A...

This podcast extra features the talk given by Nick Howes at Spring 2015's AstroCamp about life and death in space. Nick takes us on a fascinat...

The Discussion: If you enjoy our attention to scripting, our professional quality audio and our stringent editing, then you're bang out of luck! This ...

What to look out, and up, for in October. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Ven...

In this month's AstroCamp podcast extra episode: The Discussion: An introduction to star parties and enjoying practical astronomy under pristi...

The Discussion: Jeni's astronomy research yields its first results in the hunt for exoplanet phase variation and we revisit our Star Wars podcast extr...

What to look out, and up, for in September. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: M...

This podcast extra is our full length interview with Dr Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space St...

The Discussion: We're cheering Jeni's graduation with a first class masters in astrophysics and looking at the PhD options she has as she chases the d...

What to look out, and up, for in August. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Jupi...

This podcast extra is our full length interview with the 4th man to walk on the moon aboard the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. In this interview w...

The Discussion: Earthling slave John got married! The new fashion of requesting telescopes at weddings, a good time of year for solar astronomy, the s...

What to look out, and up, for in July. Our highlights of this month's skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers: Mars ...

In this Awesome Astronomy podcast extra episode we bring you the key speakers from this spring's AstroCamp in the Brecon Beacon dark sky reserve. As t...

The Discussion: Exam season is well underway for Jeni, Paul & Ralph ran the AstroCamp dark sky star party in Wales and the jet stream causes frustrati...

What to look out, and up, for in June. Our tour of the highlights of this month's skies begins with the planets on offer to observers and imag...