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Astroquarks 300!
Join us for a special reunion of all the astroquarks with a fresh look at some of our favorite topics, from hunting for biosignatures on Venus and pl…
3 years, 10 months ago
Life on Mars Killed Life on Mars
Episode 299
We absolutely definitely have not seen any life on Mars. That said, new research suggests that over 3 billion years ago there may have been a certain…
3 years, 10 months ago
Pop III!
Episode 298
Astronomers have new evidence of the gaseous remnants of the supernova of a population III star from just 700 million years after the big bang. Speak…
3 years, 10 months ago
Payback for Chicxulub!
Episode 297
Humanity gets a bit of payback on asteroids for the rude destruction of the dinosaurs and almost all life on Earth 65 million years ago with the DART…
3 years, 11 months ago
Boom: DART, Volcanoes, and Supernovae
Episode 296
There are lots of explosions in this episode, beginning with the upcoming planned impact of the DART mission into a teeny-weeny asteroid to test plan…
3 years, 11 months ago
DragonCon 2022: To the Moon with Artemis and More
Episode 295
The Astroquarks venture into the belly of the beast with our first live recording at the amazing DragonCon in Atlanta. Join us for a look ahead at up…
3 years, 11 months ago
Water Worlds at Distant Suns
Episode 294
We take a journey to the Radius Valley to explore an exoplanet larger than the "Super Earths" and smaller than Neptune and Uranus. This one in partic…
4 years ago
Ancient Astronomers and Ancient Lunar Impacts
Episode 293
We return to two of our favorite topics, the red giant star Betelgeuse, and of course the Moon. Some clever historical detective work has revealed th…
4 years ago
Strange Lightning and the Youngest Planet
Episode 292
Lightning generally goes cloud to cloud or cloud to ground, but sometimes it shoots up to the ionosphere at the edge of space. We take a close look a…
4 years ago
Is There Something Wrong with the Standard Model?
Episode 291
Korea sends its first mission to the Moon, and Mars sent a very old piece of itself to Earth. Meanwhile, the Large Hadron Collider is finding more od…
4 years ago