Podcast Episodes

[Space Bites] Big Space Debris Milestone // JWST Spies Exoplanet Weather // Immortal SLIM

Webb sees weather on an exoplanet, takes a new image of the horsehead nebula, and a satellite takes a close up image of a piece of space debris.

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2 years, 5 months ago

[Interview] Is There Hope For TRAPPIST-1 Planets with James Webb?

What are the limits of James Webb when it's looking for Earth-like atmospheres? What can we possibly find out? Is there any hope for red dwarf stars …

2 years, 5 months ago

[Q&A] Effects of Planet Alignment, Protecting Antimatter Spaceships from Dust, JWST Deep Fields

How can we protect antimatter-powered rockets from space dust? Will curing cancer solve deep space travel? What happens when planets align? Does dark…

2 years, 5 months ago

[Space Bites] Artemis III in Jeopardy // Giant Lava Lake on Io // Voyager-1 Fixed

Juno sees a lava lake on Io, Voyager 1 isn’t spouting nonsense any more, Titan Dragonfly gets the greenlight from NASA, and TESS finds its first rogu…

2 years, 5 months ago

[Q&A] Bigger JWST for Starship, Day on A Gas Planet, Real Science Gatekeepers

Why don't they just build a bigger version of James Webb for Starship? What's the pressure inside Europa's oceans? How can you measure a day on a pla…

2 years, 5 months ago

[Space Bites] ISS Debris Hit Florida House // Crisis for Mars Sample Return // Closest Black Hole

A piece of the ISS smashed into a house in Florida. Evidence for the first stars in the Universe. NASA is having to rethink its Mars Sample Return mi…

2 years, 5 months ago

Evolving Dark Matter // JAXA's Moon Rover for NASA // Eclipse Experience

New measurements show dark energy may be evolving, Japan is joining Artemis with a pressurized rover, why the Moon has two different faces, and my ex…

2 years, 6 months ago

[Q&A] Interstellar Propulsion, Uranus-Type Exoplanets, AGI Solving Space Mysteries

What engine type will the first manned interstellar mission use for propulsion? Will AI help solve any mysteries of space? Why do we have exoplanet t…

2 years, 6 months ago

[Space Bites] How To Watch The Eclipse // Vera Rubin's Huge Milestone // New Moon Rovers

Vera Rubin’s Camera is complete, where are rogue planets coming from, NASA chooses suppliers for its new lunar rover, and an earlier formation for th…

2 years, 6 months ago

[Q&A] Supernova VS Nova, Orientation of the Moon, Gravitational Lensing of the CMB

Does gravitational lensing affect the CMB? Can the Great Attractor solve the Hubble tension? Why don't we put a Deep Space Network antenna in space? …

2 years, 6 months ago