Podcast Episodes

[Space Bites] Artificial Solar Eclipses // Mother of All Meteor Storms // Vera Rubin's First Light

A new mission can make solar eclipses on demand, what do supernovae and stellar flybys do to Earth’s climate, how asteroid 2024 YR4 will make the mot…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Q&A] Seeing the Oort Cloud, Rogue Planet Nearby, Knocking the Moon Away

Can a giant asteroid knock the Moon from its orbit? How good does a telescope need to be to see the Oort cloud? What are the odds of a rogue planet h…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Bonus] No Aliens?! Space Journalist Fraser Cain on Astronomy, Space Discoveries, Sci-Fi

This is an interview with me for the Worldviews Podcast.

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1 year, 1 month ago

[Interview] Planning a Mission to Uranus

We never came back to Uranus after the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986. It's time to come back. But what will it take to organise a mission to Uranus? What p…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Bonus] The Challenge/Promise of AI & Science Communication 🧠📢

This is an interview with me done by Salman Hameed @ Kainaat Astronomy in English.

Salman Hameed has a PhD in astronomy and is Charles Taylor Chair an…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Space Bites] Sun’s Pole Revealed // Sun Shade vs Climate Change // Source of Cosmic Rays

Have we finally found the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays? Our first look at the Sun’s south pole, New Glenn slips again, what kind of damage…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Q&A] Giving Up on Dark Matter, Swarm of Cheap Probes VS Single Expensive One, Rotating Universe

At what point we should just admit defeat and give up on our search for dark matter? Should we be sending a lot of cheap space probes instead of a si…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Interview] Unveiling The Most Obscured Part of Our Galaxy

For a long time the central part of our galaxy was mostly hidden from us because of all the dust. It was even called the Zone of Avoidance. But with …

1 year, 1 month ago

[Space Bites] Resolution for Hubble Tension // Milkdromeda Might Not Happen // Failed Lunar Landing

The White House pulls Jared Isaacman’s nomination, the 2026 NASA budget is released, the Hubble Tension might not be a problem after all, the Milky W…

1 year, 1 month ago

[Q&A] Getting Stuck on a Planet, Dangerous Supernovae, Expansionistic Aliens

How big does a planet has to be to make it impossible to fly a rocket from it? Why are aliens always portrayed expansionistic? Can a supernova make u…

1 year, 1 month ago