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Season 9
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information about our home in ways nobody else can. In this podcast miniseries, cel…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Curious Universe Live: Art and Science with Astronaut Matthew Dominick
Season 8 Episode 8
NASA has a long history of bringing together science, engineering and art. Space exploration is a human endeavor—one that requires creativity. In this special live episode, NASA astronaut Matthew Dom…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside the Team That Keeps Hubble Flying
Season 8 Episode 7
When it launched in 1990, NASA expected the Hubble Space Telescope to last for about 15 years. Thirty-five years later, Hubble is still showing us the universe as no other telescope can. Go behind th…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
How NASA Found the Ingredients For Life on an Asteroid
Season 8 Episode 6
How did life begin? It’s one of science’s biggest questions, but it’s impossible to answer on Earth, where ancient clues have been buried by the planet’s shifting surface. Instead, scientists are loo…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Why the Moon’s Icy South Pole is a Hot Target for NASA
Season 8 Episode 5
The Moon’s South Pole is a bizarre landscape. Mountain ridges glow in perpetual sunlight while deep craters freeze in billion-year-old shade. Yet hidden in the depths of those shadowed craters, under…
Published on 8 months ago
The Mind-Bending Math Inside Black Holes
Season 8 Episode 4
Black holes are mysterious, far away, and can bend the fabric of reality itself—but we're learning more about them all the time. Ronald Gamble, a NASA theoretical astrophysicist, uses math, computer …
Published on 9 months ago
How Open Science and AI are Advancing Hurricane Research
Season 8 Episode 3
As climate change drives more frequent and intense tropical cyclones and hurricanes, coastal communities desperately need better tools to predict how bad storms will be and when and where they’ll str…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon
Season 8 Episode 2
As NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft leaves Earth, it carries a message: we, too, are made of water. Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—is a top candidate to support life, thanks to its ocean of liquid, sa…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
An Asteroid by Any Other Name With Special Guest Latif Nasser
Season 8 Episode 1
The idea of an asteroid from outer space crashing into Earth has captured the imaginations of science fiction directors for decades. But here at NASA, we take potentially hazardous near-Earth objects…
Published on 1 year ago
Sun Series: Bonus: Dispatches from the Path of Totality
Season 7 Episode 8
On April 8, 2024, North America experienced its last total solar eclipse until the 2040s. As the Moon’s shadow fell across the U.S., NASA sent Curious Universe producers out into the field across the…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago