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Did Earth’s Water Come from Space? New Clues from Lunar Samples
Season 3 Episode 305
This episode examines new evidence from Apollo-era lunar samples suggesting that most of Earth’s water did not come from asteroid or comet impacts.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
Enceladus and the Chemistry of Life Beneath Icy Moons
Season 3 Episode 302
Laboratory experiments in Japan and Germany have recreated the subsurface ocean conditions of Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon.
By cycling simple chemical…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dark Energy Survey Reveals New Clues About the Expanding Universe
Season 3 Episode 304
After six years of observations, the Dark Energy Survey has delivered its most precise analysis of cosmic expansion, based on hundreds of millions of…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How Supermassive Black Holes Grew So Fast in the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 303
New research from Maynooth University sheds light on how supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the Big Bang. Advanced simulations show tha…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Habitable Worlds Observatory: Searching for Life Through Direct Exoplanet Imaging
Season 3 Episode 301
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a planned space telescope designed to identify signs of life on distant planets by capturing direct images of the…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Binary Stars and Magnetars: Cracking the Mystery of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
Season 3 Episode 301
Using China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), astronomers have found strong evidence that some fast radio bursts originate in…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
SETI@home: How Millions of PCs Hunted for Alien Life
Season 3 Episode 299
For over 20 years, SETI@home turned millions of personal computers into a global supercomputer, analyzing massive radio data in the search for extrat…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
How NASA's Pandora Satellite Is Reading the Atmospheres of Alien Worlds
Season 3 Episode 298
What's in the atmosphere of distant exoplanets? NASA's Pandora satellite is about to tell us. Launched via SpaceX, this refrigerator-sized spacecraft…
3 months ago
The Black Hole Mystery: Solving the Gravitational Wave Puzzle
Season 3 Episode 297
Scientists at CU Boulder have solved a major mystery in gravitational wave science. International experiments detected these cosmic ripples in space-…
3 months ago
Europa's Hidden Problem: New Research Challenges Jupiter Moon's Habitability
Season 3 Episode 296
Jupiter's moon Europa has long captivated scientists as one of the solar system's best bets for finding alien life. With its vast subsurface ocean co…
3 months ago