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Objects in our solar system can take pretty torturous paths to get from point A to point B. Nature can scramble the orbits of asteroids, and people c…
8 years, 1 month ago
Wouldn't You Like to Hayabusa Too?
An ambitious Japanese mission, Hayabusa-2 has arrived at its target asteroid Ryugu. Are-you-good with that? See what we did there? (Ryugu'd? Get it?)…
8 years, 2 months ago
USA to NASA: Save Our Planet!
NASA does many inspiring and amazing things, from fundamental research into the evolution of the universe and the formation of planetary systems, to …
8 years, 2 months ago
Won't You Be My Neighbor Universe?
The astroquarks have often wondered where all our alien friends are hanging out. Maybe they're all just in a different universe? Well, most of those …
8 years, 2 months ago
The Interstellar Interloper and the Ravenous Black Hole
It may sound like the title of an astroquark's sex tape, but we actually do have news about a potentially new long-term resident of the solar system …
8 years, 3 months ago
Does Mars Have a Chewy Center?
We all know Mars is crunchy on the outside, but does it have a chewy center? The NASA Mars InSight mission is en route to the red planet to answer th…
8 years, 3 months ago
Chasing New Horizons with David Grinspoon
Check out our first literally-titled episode! David Grinspoon, co-author of "Chasing New Horizons", the behind-the-scenes story of the Pluto mission,…
8 years, 3 months ago
Danger Astroquarks!
The astroquarks remember Yuri Gagarin's historic first flight in this episode before zooming off to the galactic center to see what's what with the d…
8 years, 4 months ago
I Think I Stepped in Some Dark Matter
What do Annihilation, Buckyballs, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and an itsy-bitsy galaxy have in common? They're all topics for the lates…
8 years, 4 months ago
For Stephen Hawking
The astroquarks discuss the late Stephen Hawking's first major breakthrough in astrophysics: radiation from black holes, now known as Hawking Radiati…
8 years, 5 months ago