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If you take a compass and follow its pointy little needle, you will end up in Northern Canada but not at the North Pole. If you have a boat, you'll en...

From October 25, 2023: Around our parent collaboration, CosmoQuest, Halloween is, hands-down, the most beloved season of the year. Costumes are worn. ...

In this episode, we look at what tree rings can teach us about past earthquakes, and how well machine learning can identify life, like trees, from car...

As the Thanksgiving leftovers reach the stage of possibly gaining intelligence in the back of our refrigerators, we're going to take a look at the ori...

When we headed into recording this episode, I didn't know if there would be a government shutdown or not, and I have to admit, on Saturday, September ...

Researchers currently think solar maximum - when the Sun is most active - will occur sometime in late 2024 to early 2025. With this cycle, we will exp...

We keep tweaking our format a little bit every episode, trying to find the right mix for YouTube, podcasts, and now, short-form video. We think we the...

There are some news cycles that are just plain weird, and this news cycle tried really, really hard to be one of them. Headlines last week highlighted...

Dr. Pamela is big on volcanoes, and she hoped we'd have an awesome new eruption to report, but we don't. There is, however, still a lot of news this w...

In this week's episode, we look at the upcoming solar maximum, how solar activity affects Neptune, the robotic invasion fleet on Mars, and how some of...

This episode reminds you to look up, look out, and reflect on what we see around us. Stories cover a weird white dwarf that is doing things our Sun ma...

According to satellite cataloger Jonathan McDowell, there are now 18 satellite constellations, like Starlink, being planned. These constellations will...

In today's episode, we're going to look at everything from how past Earth couldn't support photosynthesis because the days were just too short, to cur...

Each week, when we set off to do this show, we start with one core idea: We want to tell you what is new in space and astronomy… and remember Earth is...

In this episode, we need to take one of our periodic looks at our planet's science and understand what it means to life as we know it. But we will onl...

Space science isn't where the money is… at least not yet. Astronomy and planetary science in the U.S. are funded by NASA, the National Science Foundat...

In this episode, we're going to look at how we now work to understand the history of life - including human life - on Earth by studying the geology of...

In this episode, we're going to be talking more about meteors - including the source of the Geminids meteor shower, asteroid Phaethon - as well as hot...

While we could spend an entire episode on Earth, there is just too much going on in the universe to linger anywhere too long. From our world, we journ...

This episode features the kind of news week where we looked at the April 20th eclipse in the South Pacific and decided it just wasn't a huge priority....

For decades now, our planetary science news cycles have been dominated by Mars. Mars is relatively close, and we have a lot of experience landing ther...

Humans are the ultimate pattern matchers - at least for now. I have to admit I'm looking forward to the day I can give some new AI a set of images and...

Right now, humans are tantalizingly close to being able to search for life on other worlds where it is reasonable to think life could exist. We can't ...

A new asteroid has been discovered with an orbit that crosses our own planet's orbit. In general, this object and Earth are very good and not trying t...

In general, the kind of year we'll experience gets its label at the end of the year. 2005 was the year of the never-ending hurricane season. 2017 was ...

OK so this is actually episode six, but our producer Ally numbered the episodes weird and we got mixed up. This week, thanks to the support of so many...

In this show, we'll go through more than 20 studies and observations ranging from planetary climates to galaxy mergers, and we'll take a closer look a...

We live at a time when technological advances are allowing us to explore ideas faster than ever before. So today, we bring you lab results on ice that...

In this episode, we discuss one mass extinction, three stories with volcanoes, star formation, galaxy dissolution, and space mission synchronized obse...

This episode has a little bit of everything as we bring you results from astronomers, geoscientists, climate scientists, imaging scientists, glaciolog...