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Antimatter is Bananas!

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More space vampires and tea in orbit

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The Kuiper Belt...Revisited

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Colanders and is space a stew?

5

Top Tips To See The Eclipse

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Q&A: Could Dark Matter Be Space Vampires?

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

8

What the heck are neutrinos?

9

Why Is There Motion in the Universe?

10

How Do Space Telescopes Work?

11

Did Gravity Wipe Out The Dinosaurs?

12

Into the Space Debris Swamp

13

Our Artemis II Debrief

14

When Space Goes Rogue....

15

Black holes in the lab and meeting Ryan Gosling

16

What is the Hubble Tension?

17

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

18

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

19

How to Time Travel

20

Slingshots, Christmas Presents & Alien Communication

21

Protecting Our Dark Skies

22

Supermassive Gone Rogue

23

A Watery History of Mars

24

Mercury, Gemini and Pringles

25

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

26

Are we Living in a Black Hole?

27

Supermassive Q and A...Live!

28

What Shape is Space?

29

Astronauts. Do we need them?

30

Where are Earth's rings?

31

Why isn't Pluto a planet?

32

BONUS - Why aren’t stars closer together?

33

Is Time Real?

34

BONUS - Mole People on Mars

35

What is Gravity?

36

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

37

Returning to the Moon - with ESA Astronaut Matthias Maurer

38

BONUS - Can A Star Orbit Another Star?

39

Sample Return Missions - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

40

EMERGENCY BONUS - Asteroid 2024 YR4

41

BONUS - Could we capture a primordial black hole?

42

The Search for Space Aliens

43

Q&A - Space Potatoes and Christmas Stars

44

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

45

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

46

BONUS - Nuclear Pasta & G-Astronomy

47

Strange Stars and Bizarre Binaries

48

BONUS - A Bumper Edition

49

Untangling the Cosmic Web

50

BONUS - What distorts time?

51

We Made It To Mercury!

52

BONUS - Galaxy Spin and Saving Herstmonceux Observatory

53

Venus aka "Earth's Evil Twin"

54

BONUS - Overmassive Galaxies

55

Q&A - Black Hole Special

56

BONUS - Lumpy Space Potatoes

57

The Major Lunar Standstill

58

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

59

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

60

BONUS - Wobbly Planets and Baby Names

61

Into The Interstellar

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BONUS - Dust, stars and alien streetlights

63

Quakes in Space

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BONUS - Double Yolker Galaxies

65

The End of the World

66

Do We Live In A Multiverse?

67

BONUS - Could Space Junk Block JWST's View?

68

Neptune... At Last!

69

BONUS - Space News Bulletin

70

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

71

BONUS - Have you heard of "Ploonets"?

72

Uranus the Oddball

73

BONUS - Team Enceladus or Team Europa?

74

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

75

BONUS - Aimless telescopes & beyond the Milky Way

76

Most of the Universe is missing...

77

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

78

A (brief) History of Astronomy

79

BONUS - Why do Gas Giants exist?

80

BIG Observatories

81

BONUS - Are Lunar Poles Arbitrary?

82

40: Becky Loves Saturn

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39: BONUS - Do black holes stop time?

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39: Jupiter The Monster

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38: BONUS - More Comets, Less Asteroids

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38: Gettin' Gravitational Wave-y

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37: BONUS - The Supermassive Mailbox

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37: Q&A - Black Hole Burps and Space Station Pacman

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36: Stargazing with Team Supermassive

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Double Astronaut Special: Returning to the Moon

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34: How to Deflect an Asteroid

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33: Q&A - The Year in Space

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32: JWST First Images... FINALLY!

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31: Life on Mars - LIVE from Standon Calling

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30: Rocky Planets Rock

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29: Gas Giants are Weird

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28: How to Kill a Galaxy

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27: How to Build a Galaxy

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26: The Marvellous Moon

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25: A Supermassive Q&A!