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Federal Budget Cuts: An extinction-level event
25. apr. 2025 32m

This week we look at how the elimination of science programs, projects, datasets, and funding may be shaping into an extinction-level event for US Spa...

From the beginning of the universe to the beginning of spring, it's all science
10. apr. 2025 31m

Let's take a fast-paced journey through all that's new in space and astronomy, including dark energy news, the death of supersymmetry, a closer look a...

Space is hard: IM2 Failure, Starship 8 explosion, Mars Sample Return delays, and more
9. apr. 2025 29m

Let's take a fast-paced journey through all that's new in space and astronomy, including new results from Perseverance Rover, Venusian Volcanism, Mars...

The Book of Mars, Star Formation, and More
13. mar. 2025 36m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including DESI takes a census of central blackholes, star formation in clu...

Temperatures That Kill
20. feb. 2025 34m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including a potentially killer asteroid, a new look at the history of Eart...

Space stories of joy
24. jan. 2025 33m

It's the kind of week where we feel the need to put joy into the world, and we've made the decision to just find stories to bring a smile and share th...

Science Here & Far: The Moon, Asteroids, Dark Comets... & Dark Energy
26. dec. 2024 29m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru new discoveries planetary science and Cosmology. We look at Dark Comets, Io's gooey mantle, the colonization of a...

Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes
12. dec. 2024 27m

From baby planets to ancient black holes, let's look at the week's space news, including the discovery of a planet around a still-forming star, our Su...

By fire and ice: mass extinctions gone wild
28. nov. 2024 26m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru new discoveries in past planetary destruction. From fire to ice, let's look at snowball Earth, melting permafrost...

Aerospace vs Climate Change
13. nov. 2024 27m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including the first results from Euclid, Roman and Rubin get ready to sear...

Hera and Clipper plan on getting up close with other worlds, and Black Hole News
25. okt. 2024 33m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including microscopic black holes trying to be dark matter, massive black ...

SpaceX vs FAA and EPA and Cards Against Humanity
3. okt. 2024 29m

This week we're doing something we've never done before; we're dedicating the majority of the show to a single story: SpaceX's recurring failure to fo...

Planning for Asteroid Attacks, Dino Prints Cross Ocean, Viper Updates, & more
19. sep. 2024 27m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including volcanic glass beads, dino prints that span the ocean, a deep di...

Mars is the future, the day the Dinos Died, a Star's Death in 3 Acts, and more
5. sep. 2024 30m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including new info on the origins of the Dino Killing asteroid, a star bei...

NASA Budget Woes May Murder Missions
14. aug. 2024 32m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including Hubble, Chandra, and VIPER face cuts/cancellations, weird exopla...

Found: 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole
25. jul. 2024 25m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including how Jupiter's Great Red Spot went missing, Io's Lava Lake, Titan...

JWST Reveals Star Formation Details
4. jul. 2024 29m

Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including Mars Perseverance Rover fords an ancient river, black holes some...

Planning to go back to the moon
20. jun. 2024 32m

Let's take a quick tour of the latest news, including updates on the Hubble Space Telescopes and single gyro operations, EUCLID's image release, an am...

Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)
6. jun. 2024 29m

In this episode, we bring you stories on how JWST - Not LIGO and Virgo - spotted the most distant Black Hole merge to date, why the search for life on...

Carrington 2024
22. maj 2024 28m

In this episode, we're taking a closer look at Sunspot complex 3664 and the beautiful chaos that it's been creating. And because we're in a planetary ...

Io and Juno Begin to Part Ways
8. maj 2024 23m

In February, on the closest approach, NASA's Juno spacecraft was within 930 miles of the closest moon Io's surface. Since then, Juno's orbit has been ...

Catch the (Alien) Rainbow
25. apr. 2024 31m

As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine...

Following the Water Toward Climate Change
10. apr. 2024 30m

This week's episode is brought to you by last week's terrible weather. While experiencing hail and thunder IRL, we also saw press release after press ...

Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood
29. mar. 2024 30m

One of our recurring topics is "Planet formation is not well understood," and a trio of new papers is making it clear why planet formation continues t...

SPECIAL SHORT: How NASA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Space Science
26. mar. 2024 14m

Earlier in March, Congress voted into place the FY2024 budgets for multiple agencies, including NASA. The agency is being asked for an overall 2% cut....

Grindavik, Iceland, and Volcanoes with Dr. Melissa Scruggs
14. mar. 2024 38m

As you know, our team loves volcanoes, and since we've been focused on Iceland for months, we brought in Dr. Melissa Scruggs (aka VolcanoDoc on Twitch...

Stability, Instability, Drama, and How We are Space Stuff
7. mar. 2024 33m

It is possible to buy stickers, sweatshirts, mugs, and other stuff and things emblazoned with the simple phrase, "We are star stuff". This phrase was ...

Early Black Holes Formed Before Stars?
22. feb. 2024 36m

One of the unexpected realities of JWST is the discovery that we have really been asking the wrong questions in many astronomy areas. For instance: we...

Yes, Scientists DO Look at the (Dark Energy Survey) Data
14. feb. 2024 33m

Every time I get the digital "why can't you scientists just look at the data" lecture, I wonder what people think scientists do. All we do is look at ...

Celebrating the Mars Robots that Could
7. feb. 2024 32m

Robots on Mars have a long history of exceeding all possible expectations. From Spirit and Opportunity lasting far beyond their planned 90-day mission...